Drafting legislation
Subtitle: a modern approach
By: by Constantin Stefanou and Helen Xanthaki.
Contributors: Stefanou Constantin; Xanthaki Helen.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780754649038
Subjects: Bill drafting; Legislation
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: On transferability of legislative solutions : the functionality test / Helen Xanthaki; title: Drawing the line / Stephen Laws; title: Legislative intention / Ian McLeod; title: Legislator's intent : how judges discern it and what they do if they find it / Keith Mason; title: The techniques of gender-neutral drafting / Daniel Greenberg; title: Drafting legislation at the tax law rewrite project / Hayley Rogers; title: Retrospectivity in the drafting and interpretation of legislation / Lydia Clapinska; title: Repealing or amending legislation by non-legislative means / Alec Samuels; title: Pre-legislative scrutiny / Zione Ntaba; title: The role of the legislative drafter in promoting social transformation / Richard C. Nzerem; title: Improving democratic development by better regulation / Ulrich Karpen; title: Drafting principles of existing European contract law / Gerhard Dannemann; title: Drafting of EU acts: a view from the European commission / William Robinson; title: Drafting to implement EU law : the European arrest warrant in the United Kingdom / Valsamis Mitsilegas; title: Procedures for the approximation of Albanian legislation with the acquis communautaire / Alfred E. Kellermann; title: Compromise and clarity in international drafting / Eileen Denza; title: Can legislation rank as literature? / Helen Caldwell; title: Open management of legislative documents / Giovanni Sartor; title: Between policy and implementation : legislative drafting for development / Ann Seidman and Robert B. Seidman; title: Drafting, drafters, and the policy process / Constantin Stefanou.