High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Hale Commission was a Commission established by the Commonwealth of England on 30 January 1652 led by Sir Matthew Hale to investigate law reform. Consisting of eight lawyers and thirteen laymen, and meeting approximately three times a week, the Commission proposed changes as radical (at the time) as reducing the use of the death penalty, allowing witnesses, legal aid and lawyers for defendants in criminal cases and creating County Courts and a Court of Appeal for criminal cases. Although unsuccessful at passing any of its measures under the Rump Parliament, two measures were put into law by the successive Barebone's Parliament, and most of the others by the middle of the 20th century. Although none of the Commission's proposals immediately made it into law, John Hostettler, in his biography of Hale, has suggested that if they had done so, "we would have been honouring such pioneers for their farsightedness in enhancing our legal system and the concept of justice".

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