The Law Reform Committee was a committee in England and Wales appointed by the Lord Chancellor[1] "to consider, having regard especially to judicial decisions, what changes are desirable in such legal doctrines as the Lord Chancellor may from time to time refer to Committee".
[2] The Lord Chancellor's decision to create this committee was announced on 2 May 1952 by the Attorney General, Lionel Heald, at the dinner of the West Surrey Law Society.
The Solicitors Journal said that the proposed step was "overdue".
[4] In 2006, John Wheeler said that the Committee was "defunct".
[5] Six members of the Committee were judges, two were Queen's Counsel, two were solicitors and the remaining three were professors of law.