Summary
Introduction. The Short-Term Curriculum. Consideration by Senior Officials. Action for Law Ministers. Annex. A curriculum for training legislative drafting. A. Introduction. B. Underlying considerations. C. A Suggested Course Syllabus. A Suggested Foundation Course Syllabus. I. Introduction. II. The drafting process. III. Drafting constraints. IV. The legislative process. V. Legislative syntax. VI. Legislative style. VII. Legislative structure and arrangement. VIII. Drafting preliminary and final provisions. IX. Substantive provisions. X. Drafting subsidiary legislation. D. Training delivery. (a) In-house. (b) Full-time courses. (c) Distance training. (e) Conclusion.
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Curriculum Development and Training in Legislative Drafting
Introduction 1. At the meeting of Commonwealth Law Ministers in St Vincent and the Grenadines in November 2002, Law Ministers recognised the continuing problems in many Commonwealth countries in attracting, training, and retaining legal drafting staff. This has impacted adversely on the quality of legislation dealing with complex issues, and law reform programmes in countries. Law Ministers mandated the Commonwealth Secretariat to arrange shorter training courses to supplement in-house training. The Short-Term Curriculum 2. A short-term curriculum to be taught over a 12-week period, was developed under the auspices of the Commonwealth Secretariat in November 2003: Annex. A workshop was then held for the Caribbean region in November 2003 where the curriculum was modified to suit the requirements of the region. A further outcome of that workshop was a decision that a short-term programme be established at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Barbados. 3. The Faculty of Law at UWI revived its LLM Legislative Drafting course towards the end of 2004. How the short-term curriculum can be integrated into the Legislative Drafting component of the LLM programme is currently under consideration. 4. For the Africa region, the short-term course will be established at the Ghana...
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