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:smiley: Case Studies (Law commission) (Law Commission (Advantages (High…

- - - - Law reform (year and a day rule) Act 1996 - introduced following review by LC and reform Double Jeopardy rule (introduced in Criminal Justice Act 2003) - Dunlop is the first man to be re-tried for same crime
        
        Reform update and simplify law
    - - Statute Law Repeal Act 2013 - repealed over 800 Act of Parliament
    - - The Education Act 1996 (brought all the laws about education into 1 statute / code)
    - - Law Commissions Act 2009 places obligation on Ministers for Justice to produce annual report indicating what law to reform within 6 month and a full response (agree or reject ) within 12 months
  - - - 4 Year period to March 2020 = 33% reduction .
        Overall 53% reduction since 2010-11 - (currently budget is £2.23 million)
    - - EU withdrawal.
      - 10 years (1990-2000) - unproductive period ('lost decade of law reform')
    - - Homicide 2006 (too controversial - then after restructured into 2 types of murder - 1st degree - minimal life sentence and 2nd degree - maximum life sentence)
- - - - Only have a few cases
      - Info would be taken back by someone in the Government
  - - - Sean Hodgson, 61, of County Durham, was jailed for the 1979 murder of Teresa De Simone, 22, in Southampton.
        His conviction was quashed (put an end to) in 2009 after advances in DNA testing showed he was innocent and another man, now dead, was the likely killer.
        Mr Hodgson was one of the UK's longest serving miscarriage of justice victims.
        His solicitor described his death from emphysema as very sad.
        Julian Young said Mr Hodgson, originally from Tow Law, had found life difficult after spending so long in prison.
      - In 1979 the body of Miss De Simone was found in the back seat of her Ford Escort in a car park beneath the Tom Tackle pub where she worked part-time as a barmaid.
- - - - Therefore it is QUESTIONABLE is RC truly independent?