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 However, certain legislative documents persist in using outdated drafting styles, leading to ambiguity in ...

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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 general purpose of this research work was to analyze the Role of the Judiciary in Law Making in Nigeria. The basic objectives of this research were to understand or explore the Role of the Judiciary in Law Making; to ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...