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All our reports since 1999, and many earlier ones, are available online: those titles which are underlined in the list below will link you to the electronic text. Printed copies of the Commission's recent reports can be purchased from The Stationery Office (TSO). Please contact us if you wish to obtain the text of any older, out of print reports which are not available online.
Implementing legislation
A note of any legislation which has implemented our reports (with links to the text of the legislation where available) can be found under the relevant report in the list below. A summary of implementing legislation since 1990 is also available. Please note that any implementing legislation cited may have since been amended or repealed.
Please also note the following points:
Our Programmes of Law Reform and Annual Reports are included in the numbered series of Reports.
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2008
Report 212 Crown Appeals [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none
- News Release
Report 211 Annual Report 2007 [PDF]
- No legislation required
- News Release
Report 210 *Statute Law Repeals: Eighteenth Report [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none
- News Release
2007
Report 209 Rape and Other Sexual Offences [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none
- News Release
- Prior Discussion Paper
Report 208 Sharp v Thomson [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none
- News Release
- Prior Discussion Paper
Report 207 Personal Injury Actions: Limitation and Prescribed Claims [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none
- News Release
- Prior Discussion Paper
Report 206 Variation and Termination of Trusts [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none
- News Release
- Prior Discussion Paper
Report 205 Annual Report 2006 [PDF]
- No legislation required
- News Release
2006
Report 204 Conversion of Long Leases [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none
- News Release
- Prior Discussion Paper
Report 203 Interest on Debt and Damages [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none (but see the Scottish Government's Interest (Scotland) Bill: consultation and draft Bill, published January 2008)
- News Release
- Prior Discussion Paper
Report 202 *Parliamentary Costs Bill: Report on the Consolidation of Legislation relating to Parliamentary Costs [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: Parliamentary Costs Act 2006 (c 37)
Report 201 Annual Report 2005 [PDF]
- No legislation required
- News Release
2005
Report 200 Annual Report 2004 [PDF]
- No legislation required
- News Release
Report 199 *Unfair Terms in Contracts [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none
- Prior Discussion Paper
- News Release
Report 198 Seventh Programme of Law Reform [PDF]
2004
Report 197 Registration of Rights in Security by Companies [PDF]`
- Implementing legislation: provisions based on Part 1 of the draft Bill (floating charges) appended to this Report are in the Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 3)
- Prior Discussion Paper
- News Release
Report 196 Damages for Psychiatric Injury [PDF]`
- Implementing legislation: none
- Prior Discussion Paper
- News Release
Report 195 Insanity and Diminished Responsibility [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none
- Prior Discussion Paper
- News Release
Report 194 Annual Report 2003 [PDF]
- No legislation required
- News Release
2003
Report 193 *Statute Law Revision: Seventeenth Report [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c 14)
- News Release (on 17th Report)
- News Release (on implementing legislation)
Report 192 *Partnership Law [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none. DTI has indicated that it does not intend to take forward the recommendations on general partnerships
- Prior Discussion Paper
- News Release
- Summary
Report 192
Report 191 Irritancy in Leases of Land [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none
- Prior Discussion Paper
- News Release
Report 190 Law of the Foreshore and Sea Bed [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none
- Prior Discussion Paper
- News Release
Report 189 Thirty-Seventh Annual Report 2002 [PDF]
- No legislation required
- News Release
2002
Report 188 Consolidation of certain Enactments relating to Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries in Scotland [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 15)
- Prior Consultation Paper
- News Release
Report 187 Title to Sue for Non-Patrimonial Loss [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 2): Section 35; Schedule 2, para 2; Schedule 3 (repeal of para 42 of Schedule 28 to Civil Partnership Act 2004)
- Prior Discussion Paper
- News Release
Report 186 Thirty-Sixth Annual Report 2001 [PDF]
- No legislation required
- News Release
Report 185 Age of Criminal Responsibility [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none
- Prior Discussion Paper
- News Release
2001
Report 184 *Third Parties - Rights against Insurers [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: none (but see the Lord Chancellor's Department Consultation Paper issued September 2002 and DCA’s Analysis of Responses to the Consultation Paper issued February 2004)
- Prior Discussion Paper
- News Release
Report 183 Report on Diligence [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 3)
- Prior Discussion Paper
- News Release
2000
Report 182 Thirty-Fifth Annual Report 2000 [PDF]
- No legislation required
- News Release
Report 181 Report on Real Burdens [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9)
- Prior Discussion Paper
- News Release
Report 180 *Damages under the Human Rights Act 1998 [PDF]
- No legislation required
- News Release
Report 179 Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1998-99 [PDF]
- No legislation required
Report 178 Jurisdictions under the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Acts [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: Part 7, Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 11)
Report 177 Poinding and Warrant Sale [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 17)
- Prior Discussion Paper
Report 176 Sixth Programme of Law Reform [PDF]
Report 175 *Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Bill [PDF]
- Implementing legislation: Scottish recommendations implemented by ss.159 and 167, Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 c.6
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