Basic Principles of Legislative Drafting (017211)

Overview

Delivery method

Virtual classroom

Duration

12 hours

Audience

Legal Professionnals

Description

• French (over 3 days)
  • Part I: February 25, 2025 (9:30 AM to 11:30 AM ET)
  • Part II: February 25, 2025  (1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET)
  • Part III: March 18, 2025 (9:30 AM to 11:30 AM ET)
  • Part IV: March 18, 2025 (1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET)
  • Part V: March 19, 2025  (9:30 AM to 11:30 AM ET)
  • Part VI: March 19, 2025 (1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET)
• English (over 5 days)
  • Part I: February 25, 2025 (10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET)
  • Part II: February 25, 2025 (1:30 PM to 3:30 PM ET)
  • Part III: February 26, 2025 (10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET)
  • Part IV: February 27, 2025 (10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET)
  • Part V: March 18, 2025 (10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET)
  • Part VI: March 19, 2025 (10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET)

Participants will learn the fundamental elements of legislative drafting. The learning will be reinforced by practical drafting exercises, group discussion and examples drawn from the existing legislative corpus.

Topics covered

• The legislative drafting context (part I)
• Information mining & Organization of legislative texts (part II)
• Sentence Structure & Vocabulary (parts III, IV & V)
• Interpretive Provisions (part VI)

Registration deadline: 5 working days prior to the course date.

Participants are responsible for adding their training activities to their Outlook calendars.

Accommodation measures: The Department of Justice is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free learning environment. If you have any accessibility needs in order to fully participate in the training activity, please contact your manager to discuss your needs. You may also call upon the services of the Centre for Workplace Access-Ability, Health and Wellness to help identify what type of accommodation measures you require.

For more information: Contact the Centre for Legal Education Services.

For information about the continuing professional development (CPD) hours for this course, please consult the 2025 Accreditation Summary.

Click here for the 2023 Accreditation Summary.

If you have questions concerning the accreditation process, please contact our accreditation team by email (Accreditations@justice.gc.ca).