Making Legislation - How Statute Law is Made. Stephen Laws, First Parliamentary Counsel

Mr Stepen Laws CB QC, First Parliamentary Counsel (the government's chief drafter of legislation) gives a lecture to students at Oxford University on 11 October 2010 about the process of drafting an Act of Parliament.

This is one of a series of videos produced by the Statute Law Society going through the process of how an Act of Parliament is produced, from start to finish, and the different people that are involved.

The complete video can be view on iTunesU at http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/statute-law-making-legislation/id407263684


The politician (Lord Falconer of Thoroton)
- How a Government Minister gets proposals accepted for presentation as part of the Government's legislative programme.




- A Minister's role in taking a Bill through Parliament

The departmental lawyer (Michelle Dyson)
- The process within a Government Department for development of the policy ideas underlying legislative proposals
- The detailed development by a Government Department of proposals for legislation
- The role of officials in a department in handling the passage of a Bill through Parliament

The drafter (Stephen Laws)
- The role of Parliamentary Counsel at the planning stage of legislation
- How Parliamentary Counsel sets about drafting an Act of Parliament
- Pre-legislative scrutiny of Bills and the role of Parliamentary Counsel as a Bill proceeds through Parliament

Parliamentary officials (David Natzler from the House of Commons and Sarah Jones from the House of Lords)
- The Parliamentary procedure for making an Act of Parliament

The Legal Adviser to Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights (Murray Hunt)
- The role of the Joint Committee on Human Rights in the legislative process

The Law Commissioner (Lord Justice Etherton)
- The role of the Law Commission in the legislative process


The Statute Law Society gratefully acknowledges financial support from the UK Centre for Legal Education and from Herbert Smith LLP. Thanks are also due to Oxford University for hosting the interviews on their ITunes page.

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