parliamentary counsel
parliamentary draftsman

Parliamentary counsel are lawyers who prepare legislation that it is proposed to pass into law.

The official title, and organization, of the parliamentary counsel varies between legislatures.

Parliamentary counsel, with their usual expertise, had produced an ingenious amendment.

The Parliamentary Counsel moved in on the completion of the reconstruction.

The bride is the committee's parliamentary counsel.

The pay bands for the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel are:

The Parliamentary Counsel are a specialised team of lawyers based in Whitehall.

Archived speeches, broadcasts, presentations from the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel.

In Australia, a draft bill is prepared by Parliamentary Counsel, acting under instructions from the private member.

Parliamentary Counsel's Office - Legislative drafting services to Government.

Some Parliamentary Counsel have received an allowance taking them over the maximum for SCS3.

In April 1899 Woolcock was appointed Queensland parliamentary counsel with the right to continue his large private practice.

Parliamentary Counsel also:

Following a process of consultation, the sponsoring department will send drafting instructions to parliamentary counsel, expert lawyers working for the government responsible for writing legislation.

The lawyers who work in the office are referred to as Parliamentary Counsel or Parliamentary draftsmen.

Not the least of Gardiner's achievements lay in getting Parliamentary Counsel assigned full time to the Commissions.

As parliamentary counsel continue to be harried to express meaning in a clear and accessible manner, perhaps the judiciary should be encouraged to do the same.

The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel consists of about 50 Counsel and 15 support staff.

In addition, in the process of instructing Parliamentary Counsel, a further 3 provisions were identified as redundant and will be subsequently abolished.

Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (United Kingdom)

The Legal Draftsman (later known as Chief Parliamentary Counsel)

In the Republic of Ireland, there is an Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to Government.

NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office - Full text of the Act.

He then served as assistant parliamentary counsel and then parliamentary counsel in Jamaica from 1975 to 1985.

Sir Geoffrey Bowman, former First Parliamentary Counsel (resigned 20 June 2012)

It is, of course, very easy to make fun of the parliamentary draftsmen.

The term Parliamentary draftsman is also widely used.

As such, Jenkins feels that Pepper may make the jobs of parliamentary draftsmen much easier.

Moving to London he spent a year in a City firm before, disenchanted, joining a company of parliamentary draftsmen.

He became known for his role as a parliamentary draftsman and as an innovator in the framing of legislation.

In 1929 he was promoted crown solicitor and parliamentary draftsman and won repute for his drafting skills.

A private Member cannot command the services of the Parliamentary Draftsman, though it is not unknown for him to render advice and assistance.

Have you ever tried to read an Act and ended up wondering why Parliamentary draftsmen seem to delight in complicating even the simplest provision?

The lawyers who work in the office are referred to as Parliamentary Counsel or Parliamentary draftsmen.

It was prepared by the Scottish Parliamentary Draftsmen and based on the First Edition.

And, by removing the legislation from the competent hands of the parliamentary draftsmen into those of departmental civil servants, it frequently results in drafting disasters.

The Law Commissions are assisted by parliamentary draftsmen, research and administrative assistants and officials from the Government Legal Service.

The sort of Parliamentary draftsman that has not had a solid career as a local government officer should have his duties confined to seeking out typos not confirming stereotypes.

"But why don't the parliamentary draftsmen simply do their job and draft the law so that's it's unambiguously clear and leaves no need to get clarification from the appeal courts?"

J. C. Jenkins, who interprets Pepper as making the jobs of parliamentary draftsmen much easier in some ways, also foresees it as making the job more difficult.

The parliamentary draftsmen do an immensely important task and do it under almost intolerable pressure; but in the end they merely put into words what their political masters state as their desired object.

Until 1807 there was virtually no legislative intervention in relation to slavery, and accordingly the common law had something of a "free hand" to develop, untrammeled by the "paralysing hand of the Parliamentary draftsmen".

Jallow, a native of the Gambia, originally came to the British Virgin Islands as a parliamentary draftsman, but was appointed to act as Attorney General when Dancia Penn stepped down.

A possible alternative theory is that the committee, the responsible government department and the parliamentary draftsmen all thought that section 15 (clause 12) was needed, which turns out to be a mistaken view when section 1 is properly understood.

The job of a parliamentary draftsman is to draft the detailed form of proposed laws, in a way that will accurately reflect the intentions of the politicians who are promulgating them, without leaving loopholes or producing perverse results.

Immediately thereafter, Hickling was transferred to Malaya as its first parliamentary draftsman, and in that capacity he helped to prepare the Malayan (now Malaysian) constitution for that country's independence from Britain in 1957.

The meeting is attended by the Attorney General, a Parliamentary Draftsman, Programme Manager to the Taoiseach, Programme Manager to the Tánaiste, Principal Officer in this Department (who looks after legislation) and the Chief Whip.

Called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1945, the same year he became assistant parliamentary draftsman to the Government of Northern Ireland, a post he held until becoming assistant lecturer in Law at Queen's University in 1951.

While the practising lawyer never quite achieves the joyful incomprehensibility of the Parliamentary draftsman, who takes most of the abuse on our behalf, the legal profession is none the less largely guilty of producing deeds that carry no thought for the people who instruct and finance their preparation.

My last point is that, in setting up any working groups or expert groups concerning better lawmaking, it is essential to get the practitioners of politics involved – not just technocrats or parliamentary draftsmen, but politicians themselves who can understand how this must be sold to the public and enforced at a local level.