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Legislative Intent and Judicial Interpretation: A Case Study of the Electoral Act, 2022
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2025)This research is an exposition of the relationship dynamics between the legislative intent and judicial interpretation, how legislative drafters can reflect the legislative intent and improve the drafting process to minimise ... -
Reflecting Legislative Intentions in Legislative Drafting: A Review of the Nigeria Police Act, 2020
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2025-03)The study addresses the critical issue of ensuring that legislative drafting truly reflects legislative intentions, using the Nigeria Police Act, 2020 as a case study. The specific objectives of the study are to examine ... -
The Imperative of Regulating Legislative Drafters in Nigeria
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2024-07)Legislative drafters are vital for drafting legislation and transforming policies into law. Legislation is a permanent enactment that stands on its own and speaks for itself without assistance or explanation from the ... -
An Appraisal of Legislative Drafting Rules: A Focus on the Electoral Act, 2022
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2024-03)The effectiveness of legislation relies in its capacity to communicate legislative intent clearly to stakeholders. However, certain legislative documents persist in using outdated drafting styles, leading to ambiguity in ... -
Post- Legislative Scrutiny in Nigeria: A Review of the Implementation of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2023-04)As a growing concern, the notion that the primary problem confronting Nigeria is not the sufficiency of laws, but rather the implementation of the laws passed, demonstrates that the idea of relegating Parliamentary ... -
An Evaluation of the Practice of Drafting Constitutional Review in Nigeria and the United States of America
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2023-05)Societies react to changes in their environment by adjustments, but leading the adjustments among other factors are laws with constitutions as the flagship. This requires that constitutions have to be adjusted to allow ... -
Purposive Approach to Statutory Interpretation: Comparative Analysis and Impact on Nigerian Legislative Drafting
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2024-03)This dissertation examined the rising prominence of the purposive approach to interpretation, which considers the underlying legislative purpose to inform the interpretation and application of statutes. The objectives of ... -
Drafting Subsidiary Legislation in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Central Bank of Nigeria
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2024-03)The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) played a pivotal role in the country's financial regulatory landscape through its subsidiary legislation. This dissertation scrutinized the drafting practices of the CBN's subsidiary ... -
Post-Legislative Scrutiny in Nigeria: Lessons from United States Practice
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2023-05)This research undertook an analysis of the role of post-legislative scrutiny in Nigeria; lessons from United States Practice. The objectives are to understand the role of post legislative scrutiny in legislative practice ... -
Examination of the Role of Civil Society Organisations in Post-Legislative Scrutiny
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2024-05)Post-legislative scrutiny (PLS) is essential for ensuring the effective implementation of laws and their beneficial impact on citizens. However, the current PLS approach in the form of legislative oversight in Nigeria, ... -
The Role of Legislative Drafters in Promoting Social Change in Nigeria: A Review of Selected Legislation from 2004 To 2022
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2023-04)The old, timeless axiom that change is inevitable still holds sway especially in any democratic society where there is guarantee of liberty and justice. Democratic society gives much allowance to social change unlike an ... -
The Role of the Legislative Drafter in Drafting Legislative Agenda for the Legislature: A Case Study of the 9th National Assembly
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2023-05)The success of every Legislative body depends largely on the conception of a legislative vision, setting out clearly defined legislative goals, adequate planning, and implementation of the said goals. Prior to the birth ... -
Post-Legislative Scrutiny By The Parliament and Congress in the United Kingdom and United States: Comparative Lessons for Nigeria
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2024-03)This dissertation was designed to comparatively examine the practice of post-legislative scrutiny by the Parliament of the United Kingdom and the Congress of the United States. The motivation for the study stemmed from the ... -
New Frontiers to Legislative Drafting: Plain Language in Perspective
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2023-05)The evolution of legislative drafting has witnessed a transformative paradigm shift, notably through the integration of plain language principles. This abstract provides a comprehensive exploration of the emergence and ... -
Delegated Legislation and Legislative Responsibility in Nigeria: The Way Forward
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2023-07)Delegated legislation is usually made by the executive pursuant to the powers given to it under an Act/Law of the Legislature. The Act/Law is usually known as the enabling Act/Law. The legislature sometime sets the parameters ... -
An Appraisal of the Impact of the Nigerian Law Reform Commission in the Legislative Process
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2022-04)The topic of this dissertation was chosen because of the lack of understanding of the Nigerian Law Reform Commission (NLRC or the Commission) organizational structure, the Commissions relationship with the National Assembly; ... -
Comparative Study of Drafting Styles of the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU)
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2022-04)This study was one of the aspects of law that is had relatively few literature. This was a problem for the researcher and this made it difficult for many researchers and drafters to have uniform standards on legislative ... -
An Examination of the Attitude of the Nigerian Courts to the Use of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aids in the Interpretation of Statutes
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2022-03)This research themed ‘An Examination of the Attitudes of the Nigerian Courts to the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Aids to Interpretation of Statutes’ is an appraisal of the attitude of the Nigerian courts towards the application ... -
The Legal Effects of Judicial Discretion on the Mandate of the People Consequent upon the Lacunae and other Deficiencies in the Electoral Acts particularly the Electoral 2010: A Case Study of Election Petition Tribunal Decisions
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2022-06)Available literatures showed that election related litigations are on the increase and the resultant judgements, in some cases, controversial and conflicting. Some of the reasons for this, it was observed are that the ... -
The Challenges and Prospects of Legislative Control over Subsidiary Legislation in Nigeria
(NILDS-Department of Studies, 2022-06)The topic of this dissertation was chosen because of the frequent abuse of subsidiary powers by the executive arm of government in the making of subsidiary legislation. The research problem was focused on the challenges ...
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