Law-Making
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Description
- Departmental Policy makers in the public service
- 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 and assembly members
- Legal advisors and practitioners from both public and private sectors
- Corporate advisors concerned with influencing the creation of new legislation
- Public affairs professionals
Course objectives
- To identify the role of law in solving policy challenges
- To influence the development of policy through legal innovation
- To overcome obstacles to turning policy into legislation
- To und…
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- Departmental Policy makers in the public service
- 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 and assembly members
- Legal advisors and practitioners from both public and private sectors
- Corporate advisors concerned with influencing the creation of new legislation
- Public affairs professionals
Course objectives
- To identify the role of law in solving policy challenges
- To influence the development of policy through legal innovation
- To overcome obstacles to turning policy into legislation
- To understand the process of making new laws
Course content
Introduction to Law-Making
- Sources and Origins of Law
- Types of Law
- The Common Law system
- Continental legal systems and the Napoleonic Code
- Law and the constitution
- Key legal principles examined from English criminal law, law of torts, contract law
The Law Makers – Government Systems Compared
- Institutions of government
- Separation of powers
- Role of the Judiciary
- How the Legislature functions
- The Westminster model
- The presidential system
- Scrutiny of the Law Makers
Effective Policy Making
- What is policy?
- Sources of policy
- Role and responsibilities in policy making
- Setting policy priorities
- The process of turning policy into new laws
- Gaining buy-in to legal change
The Law-Making process
- From policy to the draft Bill
- Who does what in making legislation?
- Stages of the process
- Legislative timetables
- Assessing regulatory impact
- How the Bill team functions
Getting Results with Law-Making
- Constraints on the process of making laws
- Amending and developing the law
- Compliance and enforcement
- Avoidance and evasion
- Is legal compliance voluntary?
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