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Craies on Legislation: A Practitioner's Guide to the Nature, Process, Effect and Interpretation of Legislation 13th ed (Book & eBook Pack)

Edited by: Daniel Greenberg

ISBN13: 9780414122932
Published: December 2024
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd
Country of Publication: UK
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Craies on Legislation is the complete practitioners' guide to the nature, process, effect and interpretation of legislation. It is regularly cited to and by the higher courts, and it is relied upon by lawyers in the public and private sectors for shedding light on the widest range of questions in relation to how legislation is made, applied, challenged and interpreted.

This new edition features:

  • New material on emergency legislation, including rule of law lessons from COVID-19 legislation
  • Validation legislation
  • New judicial applications of old presumptions and principles
  • Consideration of secret law
  • Supreme Court codification of principles of interpretation
  • Changes in treatment of EU-derived legislation

Subjects:
eBooks, Statutory Interpretation and Legislative Drafting
Contents:
PART 1 THE NATURE OF LEGISLATION
1. Concepts and Classes
2. Acts of Parliament
3. Subordinate Legislation: Introduction
4. Devolved Legislation

PART 2 THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS
5. Primary Legislation
6. Subordinate Legislation
7. Devolved Legislation
8. Drafting of Legislation
9. Access to Legislation

PART 3 THE EFFECT OF LEGISLATION
10. Timing
11. Extent and Application
12. Statutory Rights, Powers and Duties
13. Statutory Corporations
14. Effect on Other Law
15. Errors in Legislation

PART 4 INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION
16. Introduction to Statutory Interpretation
17. The Cardinal Rule: Construction According to Plain Meaning
18. Literal or Purposive Interpretation
19. Rebuttable Presumptions of Construction
20. Other Canons and Principles of Construction
21. Expressions which Change Meaning Over Time
22. Interpretation Acts
23. Other General Interpretation Provisions
24. Other Specific Interpretation Provisions
25. Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998
26. Use of Parts of Legislation Other than Text for Construction
27. Use of Extraneous Material in Construing Legislation
28. The Rule in Pepper v Hart
29. Interpretation of Special Kinds of Legislation
30. Interpretation of Documents Other than Legislation

PART 5 EUROPEAN LEGISLATION
31. Nature of European Legislation
32. The Legislative Process
33. Effect and Interpretation