Thornton's Legislative Drafting

5th Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-78043-209-0
Verlag: Bloomsbury

Buch, Englisch, 592 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 1025 g

If you're involved in drafting or amending legislation in the Commonwealth or beyond, you need a guide that will help you with both the traditional and modern techniques of drafting good quality statutory law.

Thornton's Legislative Drafting is recognised as the leading professional title in this area, used and referred to by legal officers and drafters internationally.

Completely refreshed and updated, the new fifth edition includes full coverage of contemporary drafting developments and advances.

How will Thornton's Legislative Drafting help you in your work?
Guides you through the five stages of the drafting process;
Guides you through the legislative sentence, the structure of the Act, and the drafting of preliminary, substantive, final, and special provisions;
Provides valuable updates on the drafting of preliminary and final provisions;
Demonstrates contemporary drafting conventions through fresh examples of recent legislatio;n;
Shows developments in their historical context through the use of selected older examples.

The detailed, learned and professional guidance you have been used to in previous editions remains the same, along with examples of best - and bad - practice. The work updates these 'best practice' examples with modern expressions and excerpts from current legislation, from both larger and smaller Commonwealth jurisdictions and the USA - so you can make sure the wording you use is current and contemporary.

Previous edition ISBN: 9781845923532

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xanthaki, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Words
2 Syntax
3 Style
4 Specific matters of style
5 Miscellaneous words and expressions
6 Interpretation Acts
7 The drafting process: Part 1
8 The drafting process: Part 2
9 Formalities and arrangement
10 Preliminary provisions
11 Powers and duties
12 Substantive and administrative provisions: Part 1
13 Substantive and administrative provisions: Part 2
14 Substantive and administrative provisions: Part 3
15 Supplementary provisions
16 Penal provisions
17 Final provisions
18 Amending legislation
19 Subordinate legislation

Über Autor(innen)

Xanthaki, Helen
Helen Xanthaki is Professor of Law at University College London, Dean of Postgraduate Laws Programmes, University of London (Worldwide), Senior Research Fellow, Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies, Member, Committee for the Scrutiny of the Law-making Process, Presidency of the Hellenic Government, and President, International Association for Legislation. She is a leading expert in legislation, law-making and legislative quality. She was the first and only Professor of Legislative Drafting in the UK, and served for 18 years at the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies (most of them as the Director).
She has published extensively in the field of legislation and legislative drafting, recently as the author of The Lifecycle of Legislation (with Maria Mousmouti and Constantin Stefanou), Better Legislation and the EU (with Jurate Vaiciukaite), Thornton's Legislative Drafting (5th edition) and Art and Technology of Rules and Regulations. She has edited collections: Ulrich Karpen and Helen Xanthaki, Legislation in Europe: A Country by Country Handbook for Scholars and Practitioners (2020, Hart Publishers, Oxford), Ulrich Karpen and Helen Xanthaki (eds), Legislation in Europe: A Handbook for Scholars and Practitioners (2017, Hart Publishers, Oxford), and Helen Xanthaki, (ed) Enhancing Legislative Drafting in the Commonwealth: A Wealth of Innovation (2014, Routledge, London).
She has contributed to most journals in the field, including the Theory and Practice of Legislation, Statute Law Review, Hukim Journal on Legislation, European Journal of Law Reform, The Korean Legal Research Institute Journal of Legislation and Evaluation, and Studi parlamentari e di politica costituzionale.
She has offered evidence to the House of Lords, the House of Commons, the European Commission, the European Parliament (Legal Affairs Committee). She has served as a consultant to the European Commission, the European Parliament, governments, the World Bank and many other national, regional, and international fora.

Helen Xanthaki is a Professor at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and Academic Director of the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies at the IALS. Helen is a leading academic in the field of legislative drafting and has published extensively on the topic.