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Law reform or legal reform is the process of examining existing laws, and advocating and implementing change in a legal system, usually with the aim of enhancing justice or efficiency.
Intimately related are law reform bodies or law commissions, which are organizations set up to facilitate law reform. Law reform bodies carry out research and recommend ways to simplify and modernize the law. Many law reform bodies are statutory corporations set up by governments, although they are usually independent from government control, providing intellectual independence to accurately reflect and report on how the law should progress.
Law reform activities can include preparation and presentation of cases in court in order to change the common law; lobbying of government officials in order to change legislation; and research or writing that helps to establish an empirical basis for other law reform activities.
The four main methods in reforming law are repeal (get rid of a law), creation of new law, consolidation (change existing law) and codification.
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to lawreform. The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a LawReform Bill during its passage through Parliament. LawReform Acts...
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for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML /ˈnɔːrməl/ ) is a social welfare organization based in Washington, D.C., that advocates for the reform of marijuana...
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to cooperatives, and the state. Laws relating to land reform were implemented in a series of laws passed between 1959 and 1963 after the Cuban Revolution...
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law as non-binding and the individual Jew as autonomous, and by a great openness to external influences and progressive values. The origins of Reform...
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administration of justice and law-making. The general consensus coming out of the Select Committee was that the law in India required reform since the East India...
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