Legislation:
Understanding the Legislative Process

This Legislation: Understanding the Legislative Process online training course provides an understanding of contemporary international best practice in relation to the process of legislation, from policy preparation through to enactment and beyond.  Every aspect of the legislative process will be considered from a practical perspective, having regard to the political, constitutional, and legal context of those attending the course.  The online training course will consider the purpose of different parts of the legislative process and how the purpose is best achieved in practice.  The Legislation: Understanding the Legislative Process training course will also consider recent developments in legislative practice and consider how they may be adapted to enhance practice in participants’ local context.

This Legislation: Understanding the Legislative Process training course follows as its curriculum the relevant sections of Craies on Legislation, A Practitioners’ Guide to the Nature, Process, Effect and Interpretation of Legislation (12^th Edition, Thomson Reuters, 2020) and is delivered by the author of the last 5 editions of Craies, Daniel Greenberg, Counsel for Domestic Legislation, House of Commons (UK) and General Editor of Thomson Reuters Westlaw UK Annotated Statutes.

This GLOMACS Legislation: Understanding the Legislative Process training course will highlight:

• Accessibility, publication, and management of legislative documents
• Legislative scrutiny principles and practice
• Subordinate legislation and the growth of quasi-legislation
• Consultation, pre-legislative review, and post-legislative review
• Principles of legislative drafting

At the end of this Legislation: Understanding the Legislative Process online training course, you will learn to:  

• Develop appropriate documentation strategy for all stages of legislative process
• Understand how to make legislative scrutiny effective
• Explain principles of good delegation of legislative power
• Develop effective consultation and review techniques and mechanisms
• Understand the core principles of good legislative drafting

This online training course will utilize a variety of proven online learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, retention of the information presented. The training course is conducted Online via an Advanced Virtual Learning Platform in the comfort of any location of your choice

Legislatures participating in this online training course will know that they are maximising their effectiveness in the light of international best practice and in their local context, in relation to:

• legislative document management
• legislative scrutiny
• subordinate legislation and quasi-legislation
• consultation and legislative review
• legislative drafting

Participants will broaden and deepen their understanding of the principles underpinning good legislative practice and will be able to:

• Participate effectively in legislative document management
• Participate effectively in legislative scrutiny
• Determine good practice in subordinate legislation and quasi-legislation
• Operate effective consultation and legislative review projects
• Participate in legislative drafting projects

Knowledge and skills acquired in this Legislation: Understanding the Legislative Process online training course will be of use to all persons who participate, or may wish in the future to participate, in any aspect of the legislative process.  The course will suit, in particular:

• Government Officials
• Legislative Officials
• Regulatory Officials
• Policy - Makers
• Public Sector Lawyers
• Private Sector Lawyers with Interest in Public Law
• Academics with Interest in Constitutional and Administrative Law

DAY 1

Legislative Documentation 

• The life cycle of legislation
• Publication of legislative documents
• Document preparation
• Document tracking and management
• Accessibility of legislation
• Publication and promulgation
• Explanatory Notes and other materials
• Correction slips and editorial correction
  

DAY 2

Legislative Scrutiny 

• Substantive scrutiny – Principles
• Substantive scrutiny – Details
• Technical scrutiny – Primary legislation
• Amendments – Classification and strategy
• Stakeholder engagement in scrutiny
• Private Member’s Bills
• Private and local legislation
  

DAY 3

Subordinate and Quasi-legislation 

• Fundamentals of subordinate legislation
• Preparation of subordinate legislation
• Scrutiny of subordinate legislation
• Challenging subordinate legislation
• Applying subordinate legislation
• Quasi-legislation: Fundamentals
• Quasi-legislation: Preparation
• Quasi-legislation: Application
  

DAY 4

Consultation and Review  

• Consultation principles and practice
• Pre-legislative scrutiny
• Post-legislative scrutiny
• Practical benchmarking
• Impact assessments
  

DAY 5

Legislative Drafting 

• Principles of drafting: General
• Principles of drafting: Specific issues
• Plain language – Potential and parameters
• Presumptions of construction
• Canons of construction

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Oxford Management Centre

A GLOMACS - Oxford Management Centre collaboration aimed at providing the best training services and benefits to our valued clients.

KC Academy

Our collaboration with KC Academy aims to provide the best training services and benefits for our valued clients

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