Lord Lisvane, ‘Why Is There So Much Bad Legislation?’

“… when I was thinking of the title of this lecture I selected ‘bad legislation’ rather than ‘bad law’. Often, of course, they come to same thing; but how legislation gets on to the statute book is vitally important, so I must include the process of formulation and of Parliamentary scrutiny. I also have in the back of my mind the Government’s own definition of ‘good law’ as ‘law that is necessary, clear, coherent, effective and accessible’ …”

Lord Lisvane, Why Is There So Much Bad Legislation?, Statute Law Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/slr/hmz019. Published: 22 February 2020.

First posted 2020-02-25 16:52:15

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