Why do we have a Law Commission? That is Parliament’s job  

By • on August 25, 2010, 11:21 am

According to some reports the Law Commission is concerned at how zillions of new crimes have come into being at the behest of quangocrats and regulators.Who better than a quango, like the Law Commission, to now tell us how to repeal them, eh? Sounds like the Law Commission is trying to sail with the prevailing wind. I can't ever recall them supporting calls for a Great Repeal Bill when Labour was riding high in the polls. I don't remember any Law Commission angst at the way quangos and their guidelines were determining the rules by which millions of private citizens had to live.Perhaps the Law Commission now fear they'll go the way of the Audit Commission?If the Law Commission really dislikes the way unelected bodies initiate regulations and law, they could always recommend the repeal of the 1965 Act that set them up. We could get really radical, and have those we elect to Parliament...

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