Online Legislative Drafting Course

Lecture

Duration

1.

Course Introduction

45:45

2.

The Legislative Sentence

76:20

3.

Sentence Structure & Syntactic Ambiguity

Exercise 1 – Sentence Structure

Exercise 1 – Sentence Structure Discussion

4.

Word Choice & Semantic Ambiguity

80:30

5.

Gender Neutral Language

17:15

Exercise 2 – Sentence Structure & Word Choice

Exercise 2 – Sentence Structure & Word Choice Discussion

11:53

6.

Reducing Complexity

39:27

Exercise 3 – Reducing Complexity

Exercise 3 – Reducing Complexity Discussion

7:39

7.

Parallelism in Paragraphing

16:55

Exercise 4 – Parallelism in Paragraphing

Exercise 4 – Parallelism in Paragraphing Discussion

7:08

8.

Drafting Negatives

22:40

9.

Inter-relationship of Provisions

21:20

10.

Definitions and Interpretive Provisions

56:14

Exercise 5 – Definitions

Exercise 5 – Definitions Discussion

13:23

11.

Formulas

6:41

12.

Deeming Provisions

16:38

13.

Use of And & Or

19:52

14.

Using Interpretation Legislation

27:45

15.

Incorporation by Reference

21:43

16.

Structuring Legal Texts

55:31

17.

Laws and Logic

2:54

Exercise 6 - Laws and Logic