It is no longer true that information about legislative drafting is passed down solely by word of mouth inside legislative drafting offices. Unfortunately most law schools have not caught up with this, and continue to value case-law above legislation. This selection is not meant to be comprehensive and is just to demonstrate that there is… Continue reading Publicly available information about legislative drafting
A Supreme Court judgment recently held that a digital newspaper isn’t a newspaper. This was the case of News Corp v HMRC, in which the media giant tried to get the court to agree that its digital newspapers fell within the special zero rate of VAT that applies to “newspapers” under… 999 more words Is a… Continue reading Is a digital newspaper a newspaper? The “always speaking” principle — Head of Legal
“Rules as Code” – Jersey Legislative Drafting Office’s public output so far (August 2022) Here is all of the output from Jersey LDO on RaC since we first took an interest in 2018 after NZ's Better Rules project was taken up in NSW. This pdf has all the hyperlinks - rules-as-code-jersey-ldo-output-so-far-aug-2022Download Jersey LDO Rules as Code project… Continue reading Gathering the public output on RaC from Jersey LDO
I agreed to send a set of links to another legislative drafting office recently, and then it occurred to me that it might be useful to share them more widely. It covers introductory material and projects that I think are worth keeping an eye on at the moment. I will have missed some projects -… Continue reading Snapshot of Rules as Code links as at 4 December 2021
The basics of symbolic formal logic as a useful tool for legislative counsel I have written a guide to basic symbolic logic for legislative drafters in the Loophole - the journal of the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel, 2021 issue 2, October. This issue of the Loophole is a large file, and there were some… Continue reading Logic and legislation
Drafting the law 