Drafting Legislation

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Drafting Legislation

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  • Senior Managers and Government personnel responsible for turning policy into legislation
  • Officials who instruct Parliamentary draftsmen
  • Assistants to legislators involved in creating draft legislation
  • Members of parliament, senators, assembly members
  • Legal advisors and practitioners from both public and private sectors

Course objectives

  • To overcome obstacles to turning policy into legislation
  • To understand the process of making new laws
  • To contribute to the drafting of new legislation
  • To prepare instructions for professional draftsmen
  • To practice legislative drafting skills

Course content

Legislative instruments under the microscope

  • Types of legislation
  • Primary and se…

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  • Senior Managers and Government personnel responsible for turning policy into legislation
  • Officials who instruct Parliamentary draftsmen
  • Assistants to legislators involved in creating draft legislation
  • Members of parliament, senators, assembly members
  • Legal advisors and practitioners from both public and private sectors

Course objectives

  • To overcome obstacles to turning policy into legislation
  • To understand the process of making new laws
  • To contribute to the drafting of new legislation
  • To prepare instructions for professional draftsmen
  • To practice legislative drafting skills

Course content

Legislative instruments under the microscope

  • Types of legislation
  • Primary and secondary legislation
  • Dissecting a statute
  • Structure and elements of an Act of Parliament
  • Assembling the machinery of an Act
  • Problems with how laws work

Drafting Legislation

  • Principles of drafting
  • Alternative approaches
  • Planning your draft
  • Writing for the reader
  • Using plain English
  • Dos and Don’ts in drafting
  • Writing instructions for the parliamentary draftsman

Interpretation and construction of Statutes

  • Identifying the purpose of a law
  • The Mischief Rule
  • The Golden Rule
  • Judicial interpretation of legislation
  • Judicial creativity and the sovereignty of parliament

Stakeholder participation in Law-Making

  • The need for involvement
  • Formal and informal consultation
  • Consultation processes
  • The draft Bill and consultation
  • Ethical lobbying
  • The role of the public affairs professional

Turning Policy into practice

  • Why do some laws fail to achieve their objectives?
  • Effective and ineffective law making
  • Education, communication and legal effectiveness
  • The challenge of over-complex laws
  • How to address legal effectiveness issues
  • Alternatives to law making – nudge theory
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