Legislation: Understanding the Legislative Process

This Legislation training course will be thoroughly inter-active to ensure maximum relevance to participants’ local, political, constitutional, and legal context.  Case-studies will be used throughout, and practical exercises will be carried out in-session with the results being shared as part of the post-course material distribution.  The training course will consider real-time legislative databases and related resources from UK Parliament and Government, and other selected international resources.

At the end of this 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

Knowledge and skills acquired in this 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

Organisational Impact

Legislatures participating in this 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

Personal Impact

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