Thornton's Legislative Drafting 5th ed

Thornton's Legislative Drafting remains the leading professional title that legislative drafters internationally use for guidance when drafting new legislation or amending existing legislation.

The fifth edition retains the professional approach to drafting and the traditional system of drafting stages promoted in previous editions as well as providing examples from the Commonwealth.

New material for the fifth edition includes:-

• An introductory chapter to explain the philosophy of the new edition stressing that the approach remains the same but that the book has been updated;
• A new chapter on comparative legislative drafting;
• A new chapter on gender neutral drafting;
• A new chapter on the implementation of international agreements;
• A new chapter covering current debates, topics and developments in legislative drafting.