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Last April the government launched an important campaign under the banner of “Good Law”. It is intended to increase the quality of lawmaking and to drive these improved standards across all the different organs of government. The initiative is the brainchild of Mr Heaton, who occupies the dual role of First Parliamentary Counsel and Permanent Secretary for the Cabinet Office. There are many of us who wish him luck; he’ll need it.Heaton’s recipe for “Good Law” is premised on the following key ingredients in the mission statement below:
“The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) would like the user to experience good law—law that is: necessary, clear, coherent, effective, accessible.”
The law buffs among us will immediately recognise that these principles share a more than passing acquaintance with Lord Bingham’s seminal speech in 2006 on the rule of law, and rightly so. It is worth quoting directly from Lord Bingham on the need for legal certainty:
“First, the law must be accessible and so far
