HC Deb 16 January 1996 vol 269 cc486-7W
Mr. Hendry

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department whether the Government intend to bring forward legislation to give effect to the reforms of the law of domicile recommended by the Law Commission in its recent report on this subject (Law Com. No. 168, Scot Law Com. No. 107). [10169]

Mr. Jonathan Evans

The Government have decided not to take forward these reforms on the basis that, although they are desirable in themselves, they do not contain sufficient practical benefits to outweigh the risks of proceeding with them and to justify disturbing the present long-established body of case law on this subject.