Table of Contents: Understanding common law legislation:

Main Author:	Bennion, Francis Alan Roscoe
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
Subjects:	Common law Statutes Law > Interpretation and construction

Table of Contents:

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.