Law-Making

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Law-Making

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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 und…

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Didn't find what you were looking for? See also: Contract Law, Law (General), C/C++, English (FCE / CAE / CPE), and Administrative Law.

  • 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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