Subjects:

Constitutional and Administrative Law

Contents:

On transferability of legislative solutions: the functionality test,

Helen Xanthaki

Drawing the line,

Stephen Laws

Legislative intention,

Ian McLeod

Legislator's intent: how judges discern it and what they do if they find it,

Keith Mason

The techniques of gender-neutral drafting,

Daniel Greenberg

Drafting legislation at the tax law rewrite project,

Hayley Rogers

Retrospectivity in the drafting and interpretation of legislation,

Lydia Clapinska

Repealing or amending legislation by non-legislative means,

Alec Samuels

Pre-legislative scrutiny,

Zione Ntaba

The role of the legislative drafter in promoting social transformation,

Richard C. Nzerem

Improving democratic development by better regulation,

Ulrich Karpen

Drafting principles of existing European contract law,

Gerhard Dannemann

Drafting of EU acts: a view from the European Commission,

William Robinson

Drafting to implement EU law: the European arrest warrant in the United kingdom,

Valsamis Mitselegas

Procedures for the approximation of Albanian legislation with the Acquis Communautaire,

Alfred E. Kellermann

Compromise and clarity in international drafting,

Eileen Denza

Can legislation rank as literature?,

Helen Caldwell

Open management of legislative documents,

Giovanni Sartor

Between policy and implementation: legislative drafting for development,

Ann Seidmann and Robert B. Seidmann

Drafting, drafters and the policy process,

Constantin Stefanou

Index.

The aim of this book is to prove Sir William Dale's doctrine that the rules for drafting good quality legislation are the same in common and civil systems of law. Legislative solutions can therefore serve the drafter, the judge and the practitioner of any jurisdiction.

The book discusses the general issue of quality in legislation from the legislative process to the actual drafting interpretation and enforcement. It also analyses topics related to quality in legislation such as clarity, precision and unambiguity, plain language and gender-neutral language and assesses whether Sir William's view of universality in the definition and elements of quality in legislation is right or not.