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Craies on Legislation, 9th Edition, Mainwork & Supplement

Craies on Legislation, 9th Edition, Mainwork & Supplement

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  • Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
  • ISBN: 9780414046481
  • Published In: October 2010
  • 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 in the United Kingdom, and the new ninth edition, edited by Daniel Greenberg:

  • Deals extensively with the issue of how to interpret and apply legislation for the purposes of everyday work
  • Covers questions on the timing of legislation, retrospectivity, the extent and application of legislation, the consequences of new legislation on existing law and the effect of an error in legislation
  • Ensures that you are working from the most up-to-date reference source by covering Acts of Parliament, Rules, Regulations, Orders, other subordinate legislation, devolved legislation of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and European legislation
  • Provides answers to the difficult questions with which you will often be confronted when interpreting a piece of legislation, whether you are a solicitor, barrister, judge or studying towards your law qualification
  • Gives you the tools you need to administer, advise or adjudicate on a piece of legislation
The nature of legislation
  • Concepts and classes
  • Acts of parliament
  • Subordinate legislation
  • Devolved legislation
The legislative process
  • Primary legislation
  • Subordinate legislation
  • Devolved legislation
  • Drafting of legislation
  • Access to legislation
The effect of legislation
  • Timing
  • Statutory rights, powers and duties
  • Statutory corporations
  • Effect on other law
  • Errors in legislation
Interpretation of legislation
  • Introduction to statutory interpretation
  • The cardinal rule: construction according to plain meaning
  • Literal or purposive interpretation
  • Rebuttable presumptions of construction
  • Other canons and principles of construction
  • Expressions which change meaning over time
  • The Interpretation Act 1978
  • Other general interpretation provisions
  • Other specific interpretation provisions
  • Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998
  • Use of parts of legislation other than text for construction
  • Use of extraneous materials in construing legislation
  • The rule in Pepper v Hart
  • Interpretation of special kinds of legislation
European legislation
  • Nature of European legislation
  • The legislative process
  • Effect and interpretation

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