RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSTS AT THE LAW COMMISSION - PUBLIC LAW AND LAW
IN WALES TEAM
Details of these posts are set out in the separate Guide for Applicants available at:
How to apply - Law Commission
The general guide is available on our website, and Welsh translations of both the How to
Apply guide and the General Guide are also provided on the website.
You MUST read the Guide for Applicants before applying. The skills and qualifications
required for the posts, including minimum academic criteria are set out in the guide. If you
attempt to apply without reading the guide first, your application is likely to fail automatically.
There is a separate recruitment campaign for each of our four legal teams. This campaign is
for the Public Law and Law in Wales Team. Please ensure you submit your application to
the correct team. Please only apply to one team as it is not our practice to consider
multiple applications.
The posts are offered on a fixed term basis of up to 103 weeks (two years), with the option
for a 52-week (one-year) contract if preferred by the successful candidate.
If a large number of applications are received, a sift based on the lead experience of Legal
Research may be held. If a large number of applications remain after the initial sift, an
additional sift of all the remaining criteria will be done on those applications which passed
the initial sift.
The Law Commission
The Law Commission is a statutory body set up under the Law Commissions Act 1965 to
keep the law of England and Wales under review and to recommend reform where it is
needed.
Its aims are:
• To ensure that the law is fair, modern, simple and as cost-effective as possible
• To conduct research and consultations in order to make recommendations for
reform for consideration by Parliament
• To codify the law, eliminate anomalies, repeal obsolete and unnecessary
enactments and reduce the number of separate statutes
The Law Commission is an independent non-departmental body sponsored by the Ministry
of Justice. Further information about the Law Commission and its work can be obtained from
here.