Understanding common law legislation: drafting and interpretation/

Main Author: Bennion, Francis Alan Roscoe
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
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245 1 0 |a Understanding common law legislation:   |b drafting and interpretation/  |c F.A.R. Bennion 
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300 |a xxviii, 221 p. ;  |c 22 cm. 
500 |a Originally published: 2001. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-212) and index. 
505 0 |a 1. Basic concepts I: common law statutes; the enactment; legal meaning; factual outline and legal thrust; implied ancillary rules -- 2. Basic concepts II: opposing constructionsliteral, purposive and developmental interpretations -- 3. Grammatical and strained meanings -- 4. Consequential and rectifying construtions -- 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. 
650 0 |a Common law 
650 0 |a Statutes 
650 0 |a Law  |x Interpretation and construction 
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