Craies on Legislation, 10th Edition

Author: Daniel Greenberg
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
ISBN: 9780414024526
Published In: October 2012
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Craies on Legislation is a practitioner’s guide to the nature, process, effect and interpretation of legislation. It provides practical guidance about legislation in the United Kingdom. The title looks at the nature of legislation, the legislative process, the effect of legislation, the interpretation of legislation and the nature, process, effect and interpretation of European legislation.

This latest edition is a thorough update which includes reference to relevant recent judicial decisions and legislation, in particular it includes:

• An account of developments in legislative procedure (including new arrangements for financial legislation, involvement of the public, and Law Commission Bills)
• Discussion of quasi-legislation and of local and private legislation
• Expanded discussion of arrangements for devolved legislation and of EU and EU-based legislation (including the Technical Standards Directive)
• Covers developments in relation to the exercise of statutory powers
• An updated account of the application of the presumptions and canons of statutory interpretation (including Pepper v Hart)
• Judicial intervention in legislation (including the correction of mistakes)
• Features a new Appendix discussing the application of the work in relation to the law of India

Part 1: The Nature of Legislation

1. Concepts and classes
2. Acts of Parliament
3. Subordinate legislation
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. The Interpretation Act 1978
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 materials in construing legislation
28. The rule in Pepper v Hart
29. Interpretation of special kinds of legislation

Part 5: European Legislation

30. Nature of European Legislation
31. The legislative process
32. Effect and interpretation

Daniel Greenberg is Parliamentary Counsel in the Parliamentary team at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, and the General Editor of Annotated Statutes, Westlaw UK. Having served as editor of Stroud’s Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases for nearly 20 years, he is also the Editor of Craies on Legislation, the General Editor ofJowitt’s Dictionary of English Law, and the Editor of the Statute Law Review.