POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANCE
AGS has extensive experience in assisting clients to
develop policy, and implement that policy in legislation
and legislative instruments for all kinds of Australian
Government initiatives. We have been the primary legal
adviser in relation to many of the Australian Government’s
major policy initiatives. To note just a few examples,
we played a major role in the development and implementation
of the Public Service Act 1999,
the Workplace
Relations Act 1996 and the Work Choices
amendments, the Gene Technology Act 2000 and
the Native Title Act 1993.
The experience of AGS lawyers in core government activities
and our knowledge of Commonwealth law and law-making
equip us to provide these services. In particular, AGS
lawyers can help with the policy process and investigate
the current legal context in Australia and overseas;
help identify and articulate policy objectives; develop
options; balance competing aims; ensure the policy is
consistent, structured and integrated; advise on the
practical effect of legal policy options and the range
of regulatory tools; act as advocates and mediators
during and after the process; and buttress the policy
against challenge, in particular by ensuring the legality
of the policy. We can develop drafting instructions
and other support materials. We work closely with the
Office of Parliamentary Counsel and the Office of Legislative
Drafting in the Attorney-General’s Department,
and where appropriate can provide drafting services.
We can assist with passage through the Federal Parliament,
and other legal processes.
Much of our work with government agencies has been
to translate policy initiatives into legal forms, not
only in various types of legislation, but also administrative
processes and decisions, litigation strategies and commercial
arrangements. We generally work as key members of a
policy team to develop an integrated policy and legal
product.
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National contact
Robert
Orr QC
T 02 6253 7129
F 02 6253 7304
Canberra
Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Perth
Adelaide
Darwin
Hobart
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