The Chancery Bar Association responds to consultation papers of relevance to its members. The following consultations are currently being considered:

• Administrative Redress: Public Bodies and the Citizen (deadline 7 November 2008) - Law Commission - click here
• Reform of Limited Partnership Law (deadline 21 November 2008) - BERR - click here
• Implementation of Part 2 of the Commons Act 2006 (deadline 28 November 2008) - DEFRA - click here
• Consultation on draft supplementary guidance on Public Benefit and the Advancement of Moral or Ethical Belief Systems (deadline 5 January 2009) - Charity Commission - click here
• The Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO); the new corporate form for charities (deadline 10 December 2008) - click here

The Committee considered the following consultations but did not submit a response:

• Reforming the law for people who live together (proposed private member's bill - Resolution/Lord Lester QC) (deadline 13 October 2008) - Resolution/Odysseus Trust - click here
• European Private Company (SPE): Commission's proposed Regulation - BERR - click here
• EU Shareholder Rights Directive - BERR consults on amendments to the Companies Act 2006 to take effect in August 2009 (deadline 30 January 2009) - click here
  

Members may also wish to know that the Civil Justice Council has published a report following its consultation on a possible general pre-action protocol and changes to the PD on protocols (see http://www.civiljusticecouncil.gov.uk/files/gpap-response-paperv2-oct-2008.pdf ). It basically recommends that there should be no general protocol but that the PD should be updated, in particular to “set out clearly the general principles governing appropriate pre-action behaviour in all cases”.

To read the ChBA response, dated 19 May 2008, to the original consultation see below and to read the Chancery Division response click here