Legislative Drafting - Principles and Techniques

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Description
Courts usually complain that legislations are obscure, ill-drafted and create conundrums. Lexical dexterity is not imaginative interpretation when the need is socially sensitive penetration of the purpose of the law......A Significant part of the book is devoted to drafting of Constitutions, a difficult, delicate and spinal process to master, which is necessary to make a competent draftsman. Elaborate attention is paid to this branch since all corpus juris must submit to the values of the Constitution. Inevitable judicial review figures in the discussion. Federalism, unitary State, their fundamental features and the key rules to be considered while drafting constitutional instruments - all these have been briefly but adequately dealt with by the author. I Commend Atre's contribution to judges, lawyears, legal draftsman and law teachers for equipping themselves better in an ares where more such books are needed dealing with other dimensions of the jurisprudence of legialative draftsmanship.
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Contents
Chapter 1.    Basic Techniques of Legislative Drafting
Chapter 2.    Main Parts of Legislation
Chapter 3.    Preparation of Legislative Scheme
Chapter 4.    Skeleton Legislation and Legislative Scheme
Chapter 5.    Drafting of Constitution : Some Aspects
           Part I - Drafting of Constitutions: Some Aspects
          Part II - Importance of Constitutional Mandate in Legistlative Drafting
Chapter 6.    Common Phrases and Their Significance in Legislative Drafting
Chapter 7.    Subordinate Legislation
Chapter 8.    Legislative Drafting by Legislators
Chapter 9.    Nature of a Conflict of Interest between Legislators, Ministers
                      and Public Officials
Chapter 10.  Power of Law Making and Lawmakers
Chapter 11.  Framing of Legislative Policy, Priority and Design of Bills
Chapter 12.  Enquiry into Legislative Policy of Bills Tabled in Parliament
Chapter 13.  Analyzing Detail Provisions of Bills
Chapter 14.  Ethics of Drafting and Lawmakers
Chapter 15. Legislative Drafting and Constitutional Mandate
Chapter 16. Legislative Drafting, Constitutional Mandate and Terrorism
Chapter 17.  Questionnaire for use of Legislators for Assessing Legislation
                      Introduced in Parliament
Subject Index
Table of Cases
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Author Details
B.R. Atre, LL.M., Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Former Joint Secretary and Legislative Council, Ministry of Law and Justice and Company Affairs (Legislative Department)
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