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 However, certain legislative documents persist in using outdated drafting styles, leading to ambiguity in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...