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From: Cape Times (South Africa) | Date: May 13, 2008 | Copyright information

BYLINE: Murray Michell

Public consultation is one of the great principles of democratic policy-making. By allowing individuals, organisations and lobby groups to debate the merits of proposed legislation with law-makers, it provides the space for government to test its thinking about the pros and cons of the policies it wishes to put in place.

In principle, this can only lead to better-informed decisions and more effective legislation.

There is, ho...

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