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Craies on Legislation: A Practitioner's Guide to the Nature, Process, Effect and Interpretation of Legislation, 13th Edition

Craies on Legislation: A Practitioner's Guide to the Nature, Process, Effect and Interpretation of Legislation, 13th Edition

Author: Daniel Greenberg
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
ISBN: 9780414122925

Previous Edition ISBN: 9780414101494
Published In: December 2024
Format: Hardback , 1074 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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

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. The author since the 2008 edition he is also the editor of Stroud’s Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases, the General Editor of Jowitt’s Dictionary of English Law, and the Editor of the Statute Law Review.