Understanding Common Law Legislation: Drafting and Interpretation. ISBN 9780199564101 from Practitioner Books

Many countries use and apply the common law. The common law world largely operates through statutes enacted by a country's democratic legislature. These statutes are drafted and interpreted according to a uniform system of rules, presumptions, principles and canons evolved over centuries by common law judges. In this book, Francis Bennion distills forty years of his prolific writings on statute law and statutory interpretation to provide valuable guidance on statutory interpretation applicable to all common law jurisdictions.

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

Author(s)	By F.A.R. Bennion (Member of the Oxford University Law Faculty).
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN	9780199564101
Format	Paperback / softback
Pages	256
Published in	United Kingdom
Published	28 May 2009
Availability	Available

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