Articles published under International Journal of Legislative Drafting and Law Reform

Editorial

This issue of the International Journal of Legislative Drafting and Law Reform contains two papers dealing specifically with the topic of colonial and post-colonial law albeit from diff

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Continuing the Colonial Legacy in the Legislative Drafting in Bangladesh: Impact on the Legal Consciousness and the Rule of Law and Human Rights

The Paper is an in-depth study of the practices prevalent in Bangladesh regarding law making and people's perception as to legal sanctions resulting from such laws bearing colonial resembla

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Legislative Drafting and Statutory Interpretation in the Maltese Mixed Legal System

As a mixed legal system, Maltese law poses a number of tricky challenges to the draftsperson, legislator and judge in relation to legislative drafting and statutory interpretation. In order not to

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Section 141 of the Electoral Act: How Poor Draftsmanship Resurrected Amaechi

In 2007, in Amaechi v. INEC[1] (hereafter simply Amaechi), the Supreme Court handed down what is perhaps its boldest, most daring decision yet. The sheer popularity (or noto

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Electoral Law Reform in Nigeria: Proposals for Amendment of the Electoral Act 2010 and the Imperative of ICT

The Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) is the basic legal framework regulating elections and electoral processes generally in Nigeria. This article examined radical innovations that the Act which h

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Will clear rules fix statutory interpretation? Canadian experience with Judge Kavanaugh’s proposed “rules of the road”

What should we do about Americanjudges’ inability to agree on a single method for interpreting statutes? Judge Brett Kavanaugh of th

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e-Governance: A New Reality for Legislative Drafting?

The rapid development of modern information and communication technologies (ICT) over the past decades have led to changes in almost all areas of society. There are many ways in which governance ca

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