It is a delight to publish the 10th volume of the International Journal of Legislative Drafting and Law Reform which aims to evaluate legislative drafting approaches for the modernization of legislation worldwide. Taking into cognisance the importance of having quality legislation to promote effective regulation, according to Xanthaki, quality legislation is a pursuit and a problem that breaks the barriers of geography, law and time, which is necessary for the formulation of rules universal applicability. Hence the International Journal of Legislative Drafting and Law Reform in examining national, regional and international drafting rules foster and promote quality in legislative drafting.

More importantly, the current trend in the law encourages legislation, and law reform activities across borders, internationalism of legislative drafting, law reform activities and increase in the volume of international legislation convey and enhance the need for principles of legislative drafting and law reform that meet international standards and the need for best practices. These commonalities and over-arching principles of legislative drafting and law reform are the basis and platform for implementing such international projects across jurisdictional divides.