 Although never taking Ministerial office, Wells's experience of the law was used on departmental committees.He was a member of the Lord Chancellor's Committee on the Practice and Procedure of the Supreme Court which sat from 1947 to 1953, of the Magistrates' Courts Rule Committee from 1954, and of the Wolfenden Committee on Prostitution and Homosexual Offences from 1954 to 1957.Wells remained an active Barrister throughout his Parliamentary career and was made a Queen's Counsel in 1955.