Course description
Law-Making and Legislative Drafting
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Training Course Content
This Law-Making and Legislative Drafting course will cover:
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?
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
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
Why choose LCT International
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