FB's Book: Understanding Common Law Legislation

Oxford University Press, 2001

Doc. No. 2001.032 Book 41

2001.032 B41 UNDERSTANDING COMMON LAW LEGISLATION

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Note Detailed indications of the contents of each chapter will be found in Chapter Summaries at pages 201-22.

Author’s note ix

Abbreviations x

Table of Cases xi

Table of Statutes xxii

Introductory 1

1. Basic concepts I: common law statutes; the enactment; legal meaning;

factual outline and legal thrust; implied ancillary rules 5

2. Basic concepts II: opposing constructions; literal, purposive and

developmental interpretations 29

3. Grammatical and strained meanings 39

4. Consequential and rectifying constructions 45

5. Contradictory enactments and updating construction 53

6. Drafting techniques and the Interpretation Act 61

7. Transitional provisions and the Cohen question 69

8. Words in pairs 77

9. Rules of interpretation 83

10. Legal policy 93

11. Interpretative presumptions 101

12. Linguistic canons and interpretative technique 107

13. The nature of judgment 115

14. The nature of discretion 137

15 The European Union and the HRA 149

16 The jurisprudential basis of the common law method 165

17. The common law system in America 177

18. Techniques of law management 183

Chapter Summaries 201

Books, articles, etc. referred to 223

Index 229