Law Commission Research Assistant - Public Law and Law In Wales Team

Ministry of Justice; Brighton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

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.

This recruitment 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.

About 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.

Aims

• 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.