Legislative Drafting
Short course
In London
Understand the law-making process!
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Type
Short course
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Level
Intermediate
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Week
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Start date
September
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Take the objectives of new legislation forward and outline laws for consultation and comment with this Legislative Drafting Course organized by London Corporate Training.
The course aims to give delegates the necessary tools for them overcoming obstacles to turning policy into legislation, describing the process of making new laws and preparing instructions for professional draftsmen.
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About this course
• 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
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Subjects
- IT Law
- Law
- Law Making
- Education
- Communication
- Draft Bill
- Ethical Lobbying
- Sovereignty
- Drafting Legislation
- Draftsman
- Microscope
- Practitioners
Course programme
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
Legislative Drafting