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Understanding common law legislation : Drafting and interpretation/ Francis Bennion

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Publication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2004,Description: 237p xxiiISBN:
  • 0195669037
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 328.3 BEN
Contents:
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 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
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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 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