Law Reform Commission

The Law Reform Commission has identified two "constitutionally permissible" models for capping personal injuries pay-outs in Ireland. In a new report, the law reform body said two ...

Amended legislation needs to be made more easily available online, according to a report by the Law Reform Commission. The report on Accessibility of Legislation in the Digital Age, ...

The Law Reform Commission has published a new discussion paper on Ireland's domestic implementation of international obligations. The paper does not include recommendations and instead aims to ...

A sharp decline in the use of suspended sentences in Ireland may be down to sentencing courts failing to correctly apply two key principles, the Law Reform ...

A new Law Reform Commission report on suspended sentences is due to be published on Monday, the law reform body has said. The report comes three years ...

Law reform can help Ireland respond to the COVID-19 crisis, the Law Reform Commission has said. In a paper presented to a recent joint conference of four ...

Proposals for a statutory cap on personal injuries payouts have been rejected by the solicitor and barrister professions. The Law Reform Commission last year set out four ...

Alma Clissmann of the Law Reform Commission sets out the body's recent work to maintain an online list of in-force legislation. The Law Reform Commission’s online Classified ...

Fiona Carroll of the Law Reform Commission explains the body's work to repeal obsolete pre-1922 legislation. When the State was founded, it inherited tens of thousands of ...

The Law Reform Commission has announced the appointment of former prosecutor Rebecca Coen as its new director of research. Ms Coen, a graduate of University College Cork ...

Four models for capping personal injury awards have been set out by the Law Reform Commission in an issues paper published today. The Cost of Insurance Working ...

The law on rape should be reformed to provide for a primarily objective test on whether an accused believed the woman was consenting to sex, rather than ...

Sexual offence laws in Ireland have not "kept pace with developments in online technology and the almost universal use of internet-enabled devices", a legal expert on rape ...

Ireland's defamation laws should be reformed to protect court reporters, including amateur bloggers, from being sued for simple oversights and omissions, the Law Reform Commission has recommended. ...

The Law Reform Commission will launch its fifth programme of law reform this evening following extensive public consultation over the past two years. Attorney General Séamus Woulfe ...