The quality and effectiveness of every legislation is largely dependent on the issuance of proper legislative drafting instruction by the instructor, proper understanding and analysis of this instruction by the drafter ...

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 However, certain legislative documents persist in using outdated drafting styles, leading to ambiguity in ...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

This study addressed the persistent challenges in legislative drafting within the National Assembly, where weak institutional structures, inadequate expertise, and limited stakeholder consultation have frequently ...

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, ...

This research was motivated by the need to appraise the necessity of the Seven C's of legislative drafting and other drafting techniques in the legal framework for employees' compensation under Nigerian law. The Employees' ...

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 ...

The study addressed the problem of inefficiency in the Nigerian Senate arising from weaknesses in its procedural rules, particularly the Standing Orders. It highlighted how unclear speaking arrangements, inadequate voting ...

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 ...

ABSTRACT The Federal Capital Territory Customary Court Act, 2007 (hereafter called “the Act”) is the enabling legislation establishing the Federal Capital Territory Customary Court (hereafter called “the FCTCC”). Obsolete ...

The conventional understanding of a Constitution, particularly a written one, is that it should be a relatively rigid document. the high frequency and broad scope of amendments in both Nigeria and Lesotho, but especially ...

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 ...

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 ...