ABSTRACT
The National Commissions are few in number in India. The Law Commission, an executive body established by an order of the government of India, works for legal reforms in the society. It comprises legal experts and acts as the advisory body to the Ministry of Law and Justice. When constitutional status is conferred upon a Commission, the effect is that its recommendations carry more weight and they are binding on the government, but the Law Commission is not given such a status. The very existence of the Law Commission is for inducing need-based legislation for upholding justice. It is well-known fact from the study of jurisprudence that there is always a time lag between ‘arising of need for a law’ and the society getting such needed laws. Till date, as many as 21 Law Commissions have been constituted for discharging this function. These Commissions have proved their utility in achieving the objective for which they were constituted. The Law Commission, though vested with the role of an advisor, has been contributing significantly in the field of making need-based laws. This chapter intends to discuss the role and functions of the Law Commission, in detail, towards bringing need-based legislations to suit and fit the current society and in order to uphold justice.
