Purpose The purpose of this paper is to set out the similarities and differences between legal frameworks for safeguarding children adults. It presents case developing a Transitional Safeguarding approach create an integrated paradigm young people that better meets their developmental needs reflects nature harms face. Design/methodology/approach This draws on key principles Children Act 1989 Ca...

What determines the success by which heads of government can enact their legislative proposals? Presumably, constitutional rules governing the relationship between executives and legislatures should be part of the answer. We suggest that in order to understand an executive’s leverage in legislative bargaining, one must consider a broad set of formal powers, even those that are not directly rela...

While human-oriented controlled languages developed and applied in the domain of technical documentation have received considerable attention, language control exerted in the process of legislative drafting has, until recently, gone relatively unnoticed by the controlled language community. This paper considers existing legislative drafting guidelines from the perspective of controlled language...