INTRODUCTION

This Legislative Drafting Course was designed to enable participants acquire the requisite skills to support the legislative process through more effective drafting, understand why legislation is structured in the way it is, as well as advise interested departments on the scope and effect of legislation, with greater confidence. “In drafting legislation, legislative counsel are not merely putting words to propose (Government)policy. They are also giving a legal opinion, based on the application of the statutory interpretation, that the words they are writing will have the intended legal effect.”

Participants for this course will be able to apply legislative drafting principles and analysis to proposals for new legislation in order to achieve intended legal effect. This course will also help delegates to identify, analyze and reflect on the different roles played by legislation in effecting regulatory and policy objectives and the influence these roles have in the approach to legislative drafting

COURSE OBJECTIVES

This legislative drafting course was designed to help participants to:
• make use of legal innovation to influence policy development
• understand how new laws are made
• overcome the hurdles to making policy turn into legislation
• pinpoint the role of law in solving policy challenges
• participate in the drafting of new legislation
• practice thceir drafting skills
• prepare a set of instructions for professional draftsmen

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course will of great benefits to:
• Legal advisors and practitioners from both public and private sectors
• Corporate advisors concerned with influencing the creation of new legislation
• Departmental Policy makers in the public service
• Senior Managers and Government personnel responsible for turning policy into legislation
• Officials who instruct Parliamentary draftsmen
• Public affairs professionals
• Members of parliament, senators, assembly members