Funded by the World Bank and supported technically by INSTEA and the OECD-MENA Governance Programme, a workshop was organised earlier this week for a group of judges and assistants belonging to the Shura Council (Consultative Assembly) of the Kurdish Region of Iraq. The purpose of the session was to review legislative drafting techniques to accommodate the new requirements placed on the judiciary by regulatory reform objectives. Course members actively discussed the relevance of international examples of best practice and sought to draw lessons for their own work. Your blogger, who participated in the event, was impressed by the expert legal tradition and the determination of the judges to support the rule of law and democratic principles in their work. This workshop also gave a practical example of the issue addressed in the previous post (the relation between sound legislative drafting and better regulation).
For more, see similar projects of the WB in KRG, and examples of legislation in the KRG. Also check the regulatory quality resources produced by the OECD-MENA programme (drafting manual, guide to consultation, etc.)
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