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Law in the Making

Fri, 8 August 2008

Although there is much political, media and public attention on the operation and effect of certain individual laws, comparatively little concentration is placed on the process involved in creating them.

A new study by the Hansard Society has analysed the processes by which laws are made and the influences that affect legislative proposals and their passage into law.

The study assesses how a particular law came to take the form that it did and who or what influenced its final outcomes. It examines the way that the various participants ineract with each other, and how proposals change as they journey from policy proposal through the parliamentary process into law.

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Last Updated Fri, 8 August 2008