Law-Making and Legislative Drafting
Course Information:
Venue: | Duration: | Date: | Price: |
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Online | 20 hours | Flexi-date | £2,500.00 |
In-House | Agreed with client | Flexible | POA |
London | 10 days | 24-Jan | £5,900.00 |
London | 10 days | 12-Sep | £5,900.00 |
Who should attend?
- Departmental Policy makers in the public service
- Senior Managers and Government personnel responsible for turning policy into legislation
- Officials who instruct Parliamentary draftsmen
- Members of parliament, senators, 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
Accreditations
Outcomes
- Identify the role of law in solving policy challenges
- Influence the development of policy through legal innovation
- Overcome obstacles to turning policy into legislation
- Follow a structured process of making new laws
- Contribute to the drafting of new legislation
- Practice their legislative drafting skills
- Prepare instructions for professional draftsmen
COURSE TOPICS:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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