4.5 Development of Law in the Republic Period

4.5.1 2063-2072 (2007-2015): the Interim era: the peace process's law (the CPA's implementation; the TJ statutes' beginnings); the Constituent Assembly's two rounds (the 2008- and-2013 elections; the 2012-13 deadlock); the interim constitution's-amendments; the judiciary's- and-rights' jurisprudence's growth (the Pant-era decisions; the constitutional-bench craft). 4.5.2 2072 till now (2015- ): the 2015 Constitution (the federal democratic republic: the seven- province design; the fundamental-rights expansion; the inclusive architecture); the federalism's legal construction (the LGOA 2074-and-the local statutes; the provincial laws' development); the 2074 codification (the five codes — 4.5.5); the specialised statutes' modernisation (the criminal- and-civil procedure reforms); the post-constitution jurisprudence (the constitutional bench's-and- full-court's landmark lines); the ongoing challenges (the TJ's unfinished business; the federal implementation). 4.5.3 Characteristics of the Existing Nepalese Legal System (the exam's synthesis): (i) the mixed system (the civil-law codes + the common-law precedent-and-writ craft); (ii) the constitutional supremacy (the 2015 text's rule — the judicial review); (iii) the codified core (the Ain tradition's 2074 continuation); (iv) the reception's openness (the Anglo- Indian-and-international borrowings); (v) the religious-cultural substrate (the Hindu-and- customary underlay, secularly recast); (vi) the federal design (the three-tier law-making); (vii) the PIL-and-ADR vitality (the access-to-justice machinery); (viii) the inclusive aspiration (the equality-and-inclusion architecture). 4.5.4 Codification and Law-Making Process in Nepal: the legislative machinery: the federal Parliament (the bill's stages: the introduction — the readings —…