 Croeso i wefann Goveraeth Cymru. Welcome to the Law Wales website. As a Welsh Government law officer, the accessibility and clarity of the law is one of my main priorities because understanding the law can be difficult and yet is so vital to the rights of our citizens and to the rule of law. Law Wales is an online service the Welsh Government is developing in collaboration with Westlaw UK. It will provide an overview of Wales's constitutional arrangements, together with an explanation and commentary on the law across all of the developed subjects. The purpose of the website is to make it easier for people who live in Wales or who do business here to know what law is applied to them and to help them understand those laws. Traditionally in the UK the law on any particular subject is found through many and varied statutes, which can make it hard to find. These statutes have a variety of names, sometimes confusing names, and are ordered chronologically rather than by reference to their contents. In Wales we have the added complication, but much of our law is intertwined with the law that also applies to England or to other parts of the United Kingdom. All of this has the potential to undermine one of the fundamental principles of society, the rule of law. An important element of the rule of law is that acts passed by the National Assembly for Wales and regulations made by ministers are clear and accessible to all. Whilst it's already all published, I intend that we will fully explain all Welsh legislation, but I recognise this as a substantial task that will take considerable time to complete. There are three strands to our work to improve the position. Firstly, we're looking at what we can do to consolidate the law on a subject into one or more bespoke acts and perhaps create a series of codes of Welsh law. Secondly, we're working with the National Archive to improve the publication of Welsh law on legislation of UK. And thirdly, we have developed this new website, Law Wales. I am pleased with what we have produced so far for the website, most of which has been written by Welsh government lawyers and legislative council, but it is a work in progress and it's not yet comprehensive. The site's further development will depend not only on our collaboration with Westlaw UK who are providing material for the site from their inside service, but also on members of the Welsh legal community contributing their knowledge and expertise. I'm very grateful to Westlaw UK for their commitment to the project and to all who have written material to contribute to the service so far and, in eager anticipation, to those who will participate in the future. I'm very pleased at how well the service has already been received and I hope and confidently expect that the service will become increasingly useful and valued over time, a truly integral part of the way the law operates and is understood within Wales. This is the first service of its kind within the UK and I look forward very much to seeing it develop, to provide and promote real access to justice and a full understanding of devolution for Wales.