Plus ca change? Continuity and change in UK legislative drafting practice

This article is taken from the text of the Sir William Dale Lecture for 2008, given on November 3 2008 by Stephen Laws CB, First Parliamentary Counsel, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. Article by Stephen Laws published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.