Thornton's Legislative Drafting

Name: Thornton's Legislative Drafting
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781526518910
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By Professor Helen Xanthaki

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Thornton's Legislative Drafting is the definitive guide for those involved in drafting or amending legislation within the Commonwealth, the EU, and beyond. This widely respected manual offers comprehensive coverage of both traditional and modern legislative drafting techniques. The sixth edition has been fully updated to include the latest developments, featuring new chapters on legislation as a regulatory tool, the transposition of EU legislation, and pre- and post-legislative scrutiny. Readers will gain insight into aligning legislative quality with effectiveness, applying these principles to resolve drafting challenges, and understanding best practices globally, supported by clear examples of good and bad drafting.
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This book is ideal for legal officers, legislative drafters, policy makers, and students specialising in legislative drafting or statutory law. It is an essential resource for anyone engaged in creating, amending, or scrutinising legislation, particularly within Commonwealth and European jurisdictions.

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...the uber-manual of all legislative drafting manuals Statute Law Review, 2023, 44

If you’re involved in drafting or amending legislation in the Commonwealth, the EU, 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 sixth edition includes full coverage of contemporary drafting developments and advances.

Fully updated and alongside the detailed, learned, and professional guidance and examples of best and bad practice, the new 6th edition includes new chapters on:

Legislation as a Tool for Regulation
Transposition of EU Legislation
Pre- and post-legislative scrutiny: the lifecycle of legislation

Thornton's Legislative Drafting helps the reader to:

Identify the aim of legislation as one of the regulatory tools
Align their concept of legislative quality with that of effectiveness of legislation
Use effectiveness as the criterion for resolving drafting dilemmas
Apply the effectiveness doctrine to all aspects of legislative drafting
Earn exposure to examples of best and bad practice drawn from a plethora of jurisdictions
Gain awareness of best practice in aspects of legislative drafting worldwide
Understand the “why” behind legislative conventions, thus becoming equipped with the tools for their application in practice

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"...the uber-manual of all legislative drafting manuals" – Statute Law Review, 2023. Praised by legal professionals worldwide, the book is described as an invaluable and essential tool for legislative drafters, with a legacy spanning over 50 years. Under Professor Helen Xanthaki's editorship, the latest editions continue to deliver practical, authoritative guidance, ensuring the book's ongoing relevance and usefulness in legislative drafting practice.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526518910

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 21 July 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Professional

Edition: 6th edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 40.0mm

Width: 158.0mm

Height: 252.0mm

Weight: 1180g

Pages: 632

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About the Author

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.