Law Commission

• Fighting over the frying pan
  Posted on October 11, 2012 by Louise Restell
  There is nothing quite so satisfying as a celebrity divorce. There is a pleasing sense of schadenfreude in knowing that people for whom everything appears so wonderful and perfect can have as miserable and depressing a time as the rest of us. We can also gloat in having known that it would never work because ‘she’s so talented and he’s, well, a bodyguard’ and because getting hitched only weeks after meeting usually turns out not to be the good idea it seemed at the time.
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  Posted in: Family law
  Tagged: Divorce, Law Commission, prenups, pre-nuptial agreements, Katrin Radmacher, marriage, lawyers
• Spring cleaning the statute book: it's not just old laws that should go
  Posted on April 11, 2012 by Louise Restell
  Easter Sunday, along with Christmas and birthdays, is the only day you are allowed to eat chocolate for breakfast. It’s not a very enforceable rule and not one, as far as I know, defined by statute, but it’s a rule nonetheless. Unlike the supposed law banning eating mince pies on Christmas day, which is, as with many of the most amusing examples of stupid laws, an urban myth. 
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  Posted in: Rule of Law
  Tagged: bad law, government, LASPO, Law Commission, legislation, parliament, regulations, secondary legislation, statutory instrument, stupid laws