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The Union Cabinet has approved the creation of the 22nd Law Commission of India to advise the government on complex legal issues. The previous law panel's term had ended in August last year. With cabinet approval, the Law Ministry will notify the new panel, which will have a 3-year term. The Law Commission is an executive body established in 1955 that is reconstituted every 3 years and has submitted 277 reports to the government.

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Legal Wing: Law Commission of India

The Union Cabinet has approved the creation of the 22nd Law Commission of India to advise the government on complex legal issues. The previous law panel's term had ended in August last year. With cabinet approval, the Law Ministry will notify the new panel, which will have a 3-year term. The Law Commission is an executive body established in 1955 that is reconstituted every 3 years and has submitted 277 reports to the government.

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Legal wing

Law Commission of India

Union Cabinet has approved the creation of the 22nd Law Commission, which advises the government on complex legal
issues.

The term of the previous law panel had ended in August last year.

With the cabinet approval, the law ministry will now notify the new panel, which will have a term of three years.

Background: It is an executive body established by an order of the Government of India.

Originally formed in 1955, the commission is reconstituted every three years and so far, 277 reports have been
submitted to the government.

Last Law Commission, under Justice B.S. Chauhan (retd.), had submitted reports and working papers on key issues
such as simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and the Assemblies and a uniform civil code.

Prior to independence, the First Law Commission was established in 1834 by the British Government under the
Chairmanship of Lord Macaulay.

Composition: Apart from having a full-time chairperson, the commission will have four full-time members, including a
member-secretary.
Law and Legislative Secretaries in the Law Ministry will be the ex-officio members of the commission.

It will also have not more than five part-time members.A retired Supreme Court judge or Chief Justice of a High Court
will head the Commission,

Roles and functions: Law Commission shall, on a reference made to it by the Central Government or suo motu, undertake
research in law and review of existing laws in India for making reforms and enacting new legislation.

It shall also undertake studies and research for bringing reforms in the justice delivery systems for elimination of delay in
procedures, speedy disposal of cases, reduction in cost of litigation, etc

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