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Understanding Common Law Legislation


ISBN13: 9780199564101
Published: May 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 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 Statutory Interpretation (Butterworths, third edition 1997, supplement 1999). 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).

Subjects:
Constitutional and Administrative Law, Courts and Procedure, Statutory Interpretation and Legislative Drafting
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 constructions
literal, 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