Understanding common law legislation : drafting and interpretation / F.A.R. Bennion.
2001
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Title
Understanding common law legislation : drafting and interpretation / F.A.R. Bennion.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Call Number
K284 .B46 2001
ISBN
0199247773
Description
xxx, 237 pages ; 22 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)47216508
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-227) and index.
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Table of Contents
Author's note
Abbreviations
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Introductory
1
1
Basic concepts I: common law statutes; the enactment; legal meaning; factual outline and legal thrust; implied ancillary rules
5
2
Basic concepts II: opposing constructions; literal, purposive and developmental interpretations
29
3
Grammatical and strained meanings
39
4
Consequential and rectifying constructions
45
5
Contradictory enactments and updating construction
53
6
Drafting techniques and the Interpretation Act
61
7
Transitional provisions and the Cohen question
69
8
Words in pairs
77
9
Rules of interpretation
83
10
Legal policy
93
11
Interpretative presumptions
101
12
Linguistic canons and interpretative technique
107
13
The nature of judgment
115
14
The nature of discretion
137
15
The European Union and the HRA
149
16
The jurisprudential basis of the common law method
165
17
The common law system in America
177
18
Techniques of law management
183
Chapter Summaries
201
Books, articles, etc. referred to
223
Index
229