Good Legislation in Judicial Precedent: an Analysis on Decisions by Supreme Court of the United States, French Constitutional Council and European Courts

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Since three last decades,various legal systems has paid attention  to Good Legislation and acts' formal and sustansive characteristics. This fact has been presented at first by legal scholarsand then by courts and constitutions.
       Having examined briefly the “Quality of Law” and its legal basis, this paper seeks to consider the role of courts in supervising the characteristics and quality of law in Romanio-Germanic law as well as common law systems in order to determine and propose the courts' appropriate legal status for supervising good legislation according to the duties deemed to carry out.
       Although Iran has paid a coherent attention to the issue of “quality of legal legislation” during a time relatively later than other legal systems have do, the government’s recent attention to “quality of legal legislation” and the proposition of the drafted Bills of law regarding legislative policies in the cabinet appear to be promising. Thus, this paper's findings can remove some problems regarding the Iranian courts' role and duties related to the issue of “quality of legal legislation”.

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Majlis and Rahbord
Volume 23, Issue 88 - Serial Number 88
January 2017
Pages 175-196

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