Pre legislative and legislative scrutiny processes: the contribution of Parliament to quality legislation

In this LLM dissertation the author argues that deficiencies in the pre-legislative and legislative scrutiny processes harbours bad quality legislation. The author makes an analysis of the pre-legislative and legislative process in Botswana to highlight the deficiencies which may harbour bad quality legislation and uses the Report of the Select Committee on the Modernisation of the House of Commons of 1997 as criteria of how pre-legislative scrutiny can benefit and enhance quality of legislation and assesses the system in Botswana against the said criteria. To this end the dissertation relies on the views of the authors who have studied the process in the United Kingdom looking at bills that had undergone the process to establish the effect of the process on quality of those bills. They are therefore used as lessons for Botswana. The dissertation also relies on other relevant literature and materials on the subject matter.