Understanding Common Law Legislation

Drafting and Interpretation

AvF.A.R. Bennion

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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There are many countries that use and apply the common law, which collectively may be called the common law world. A feature of this world is that nowadays it largely operates through statutes enacted by a country's democratic legislature, and that these mainly fall to be construed according to a uniform system of rules, presumptions, principles and canons evolved over centuries by common law judges. The statutes subject to this interpretative regime may be called common law statutes. They are the main subject of this book, along with the said uniform system. The book distills and updates within a brief compass the author's published writings on statute law and statutory interpretation which span a period of nearly forty years, being contained in half a dozen books and many more articles. The chief books are Statute Law (Longman, third edition 1990), Halsbury's Laws of England, Title Statutes (Butterworths, 4th edition reissue 1995), and Bennion on Statutory Interpretation (LexisNexis Butterworths, fifth edition 2008). Since its first publication in 1984, the last named work has also been updated each year in the All England Law Reports Annual Review (Butterworths).

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-10-18
Mått:146 x 225 x 20 mm
Vikt:469 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:237
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199247776

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F.A.R. Bennion was formerly one of the Parliamentary Counsel, responsible for drafting British legislation. His drafting work includes, among much constitutional and other legislation, the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Sex Discrimination Act 1975. As a constitutional lawyer, he has also advised at various times the governments of Pakistan, Ghana, Jamaica, and Gibraltar. He drafted constitutions for Pakistan (1956) and Ghana (1959-1961) on those countries attaining the status of independent republics. He was also formerly law tutor at St Edmund Hall in the University of Oxford, and is still a member of the University's law faculty.

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Francis Bennion brings with him years of experience in legislative drafting ... The treatment is uniformly illuminating, and the style is homely.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Basic concepts I: common law statutes; the enactment; legal meaning; factual outline and legal thrust; implied ancillary rules ; 2. Basic concepts II: opposing constructions; literal, purposive and developmental interpretations ; 3. Grammatical and strained meanings ; 4. Consequential and rectifying constructions ; 5. Contradictory enactments and updating construction ; 6. Drafting techniques and the Interpretation Act ; 7. Transitional provisions and the Cohen question ; 8. Words in pairs ; 9. Rules of interpretation ; 10. Legal policy ; 11. Interpretative presumptions ; 12. Linguistic canons and interpretative technique ; 13. The nature of judgment ; 14. The nature of discretion ; 15. The European Union and the HRA ; 16. The jurisprudential basis of the common law method ; 17. The common law system in America ; 18. Techniques of law management