Francis Bennion's writings from 1980

Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1980
1980.001	.	Sir Noel Hutton, the PCO, juries etc	130 NLJ (1980) 56
1980.002	.	‘Statutory sanity’	Prof A 1980 8
1980.003	.	‘Statute law processing: the composite restatement method’	124 SJ (1980) 71, 92
1980.004	.	Sir Harold Kent, Lord Denning and discretion for bureaucrats	130 NLJ (1980) 243
1980.005	.	Drafting: definite article mandatory or directory, mischief, long titles	124 SJ (1980) 195
1980.006	.	Drafting: Cross	Driedger and Hoyt, 130 NLJ (1980) 493
1980.007	.	Review of Legislative Drafting: A New Approach by Sir W Dale	[Spring 1980] Stat LR 1 p.61-64
1980.008	.	‘Framing the crime of attempt’	130 NLJ (1980) 725
1980.009	.	‘Drafting practice’	124 SJ (1980) 567
1980.010	NLJ	‘Principal Acts and textual amendment’	130 NLJ (1980) 913
1980.011	Book 7	STATUTE LAW (1st edn)	Publishing Details
1980.012	.	‘The literal rule of interpretation’	130 NLJ (1980) 1156
1980.013	.	‘Law and Class’	LRB, 1 May 1980
1980.014	.	Arrogance of the Parliamentary Counsel Office (letter)	130 NLJ (1980) 246
1980.015	.	‘Updating construction (letter)’	Crim LR 23 Nov 1980
1980.016	.	‘Religion as an aid to law’ (letter)	LSG 23 Jan 1980
1980.017	.	The New Comfort Column	100 TFT 7 (1980) 101
1980.018	.	Sex Morality Changed (official)	100 TFT 8 (1980) 118
1980.019	.	Demented Dogma	100 TFT 9 (1980)
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1980.020	.	Review of Human Ethics -Dialogue on Basics, edited by Morris B. Storer,	100 TFT (1980) 187
1980.021	.	Review of My Guru and his Disciple by Christopher Isherwood	100 TFT (1980) 170
1980.022	.	‘Drafting of the Theft Act 1978 s 3’	[1980] Crim LR 670
1980.023	T024L	Further objections to a Bill of Rights	The Times, 9 Jan 1980
1980.024	T025L	Further objections to the European Human Rights Convention	The Times, 14 Apr 1980
1980.025	T026L	Attempted theft	The Times, 19 Jun 1980
1980.026	T027L	Further thoughts on crimes of attempt	The Times, 11 Jul 1980
1980.027	T028L	How the House of Lords could reform itself	The Times, 5 Aug 1980
1980.028	T029L	Why there should be a Human Rights parliamentary select committee	The Times, 29 Sep 1980
1980.029	.	‘Sex and Law’	The Advocate, Easter 1980
1980.030	.	Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 For the original article and subsequent correspondence including this letter see 1979.005	130 NLJ (3 Jan 1980) 22
1980.031	.	Anonymous anti-abortion advertising	130 NLJ (24 Jan 1980)
1980.032	.	Secret inspection of documents by judges	SJ (4 Jan 1980)
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1981
1981.001	.	‘Legislative technique: homonyms & attempts’	131 NLJ (1981) 192
1981.002	.	‘Drafting practice’	125 SJ (1981) 139
1981.003	.	‘Bringing Acts into force: the computer dimension’	131 NLJ (1981) 356
1981.004	NLJ...L	Letter 'Jamaica Schedule' amplifying 1981.003. See 1981.003 for complete article with associated letters	131 NLJ (1981) 586
1981.005	.	‘Leave my word alone’	131 NLJ (1981) 596
1981.006	.	‘Drafting practice’	125 SJ (1981) 420
1981.007	.	‘Can there be an infringing copy without a copyright infringement?’	131 NLJ (1981) 749
1981.008	.	‘Another reverse for the Law Commissions’ Interpretation Bill’	131 NLJ (1981) 840
1981.009	.	‘Credit or theft: the Lambie case’	131 NLJ (1981) 1041
1981.010	.	‘Legol and the electronic home lawyer’	LSG (1981) 1334
1981.011	.	‘Modern Royal Assent procedure at Westminster’	[Autumn 1981] Stat LR 2, p.133 - 147
1981.012	Book 8	THE CONSUMER CREDIT ACT MANUAL (2nd edn)	Publishing Details
1981.013	.	Composite Restatement of Legislative Texts’ (Script of VHS Video)	Oyez Longman
1981.014	.	‘Who Should Lay Down Prosecution Guidelines?’	125 SJ (1981) 534
1981.015	.	Review of Dictionary of Medical Ethics - Revised and Enlarged Edition. Edited by A. S. Duncan. G. R. Dunstan and R. B. Welbourn. Darton	11 TFT (1981. 123
1981.016	.	‘The Rule of Law’	101 TFT (1981) 175
1981.017	T030L	Lord Denning should retire	The Times, 20 Jan 1981
1981.018	A002L	'Prosecution of the Romans in Britain'	Letter in The Author, Autumn 1981
1981.019	.	Reversing Lord Denning	131 NLJ, 5 Mar 1981
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1981.020	.	Is precision drafting enough?	SJ 17 Apr 1981
1981.021	.	First year of the Statute Law Review [1981] Stat LR 63	[Spring 1981] Stat LR 2, p.63 - 64
1981.022	OBS001L	Support for the Social Democratic Party	The Observer, 5 Apr 1981
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1982
1982.001	.	‘The need for training in Statute Law’	LSG (1982) 219
1982.002	.	Follow-up letter to 1982.001	LSG (1982) 664
1982.003	.	‘Penalty points - a transitional problem’ (pseudonymous – ‘Piers Darkly’)	LSG (1982) 1622
1982.004	.	‘Peace at any price’	.
1982.005	.	Cambridge lecture on legislative drafting: 'The Tortoise and the Lettuce Leaf, or Turning Words into Laws'	Lecture at Queens’ College, Cambridge 1982
1982.006	.	Construing a multiple broad term	SJ Sep 1982
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1983
1983.001	.	‘Making off without payment’	Crim LR (1983) 205
1983.002	.	'Founding of Statute Law Society’	Stat LR 4 [Spring 1983], pp.63 - 64
1983.003	.	Citation of unreported cases	LSG (29 Jun 1983) 1635
1983.004	.	‘Scientific statutory interpretation and the Franco scheme’	[1983] BTR 74
1983.005	.	‘The controversy over drafting style’	LSG (1983) 2355, 3211
1983.006	Book 9	STATUTE LAW (2nd edn)	Publishing Details
	088	Chapter 9 - Existing Rules of Interpretation
	Ch9	Chapter 9 - Existing Rules of Interpretation
	167	Doubt-factor V: The Fallible Draftsman (1)
	Ch16	Doubt-factor V: The Fallible Draftsman (1)
	198	Doubt-factor V: The Fallible Draftsman (3)
	Ch18	Doubt-factor V: The Fallible Draftsman (3)
	216	The Administrative Processor
	Ch20	The Administrative Processor
	289	Aiding Text-comprehension (2): Composite Restatement
	Ch27	Aiding Text-comprehension (2): Composite Restatement
	307	Illustration of the Restatement Method
	App B	Illustration of the Restatement Method
1983.007	.	Review of The Influence Of Pornography On Behaviour Edited by Maurice Yaffé and Edward C. Nelson	103 TFT (1983) 42
1983.008	.	‘The Humanist Chance in Ulster’	103 TFT (1983) 13
1983.009	.	‘Britain and the Falkland Islands’ (Letter)	103 TFT 5 (1983) 77
1983.010	.	FB’s review of Legislation by Miers and Page	127 SJ (11 Mar 1983) 170
1983.011	T031L	Delays in activating the Consumer Credit Act 1974	The Times, 3 Feb 1983
1983.012	T032L	Why Acts should contain a ‘historical file’	The Times, 2 May 1983
1983.013	T033L	Objections to proportional representation	The Times, 15 Jun 1983
1983.014	T034L	Our house is still our castle	The Times, 28 Jul 1983
1983.015	T035L	There will never again be paid jobs for all	The Times, 28 Jul 1983
1983.016	T036L	More thoughts on unemployment	The Times, 21 Sep 1983
1983.017	.	Story donated by FB to the ‘Help the Aged’ book Tales out of School - The early misdeeds of the famous	Collectors Books Limited 1983
1983.018	.	‘How Bratby Painted My Portrait’	.
1983.019	.	Duty of courts to lay down the law	133 NLJ Sep 1983
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1983.020	.	Scandalous interpretation of ‘found drunk’	SJ 22 Apr 1983
1983.021	.	Theoriginal meaning of ‘police’	SJ 6 May 1983
1983.022	.	Displacing the name of a book’s author	SJ 25 Nov 1983
1983.023	SLR003	'Founding of Statute Law Society’ This modification to the earlier letter (see 1983.002) has also been appended to the end of that document	Stat LR, Summer 1983, 4, p. 128
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1984
1984.001	Book 10	STATUTORY INTERPRETATION (1st edn)	Publishing Details
1984.002	.	‘Propositions of law in conviction appeals’	Crim LR (1984) 282
1984.003	T037L	The miners’ strike: failing to prosecute Scargill	The Times, 31 Jul 1984
1984.004	T038L	Treating fines as a business expense	The Times, 10 Aug 1984
1984.005	T039L	More thoughts on prosecuting Scargill	The Times, 22 Aug 1984
1984.006	T040L	Women entitled to ordination since 1919	The Times, 22 Aug 1984
1984.007	T041L	Still more thoughts on prosecuting Scargill	The Times, 29 Dec 1984
1984 008	.	Problems in consolidating Acts	134 NLJ 20 Jul 1984
1984 009	.	Citation of unreported cases	SJ Jun 1984
1984 010	SLR004L	Punctuation in statutes	[Autumn 1984] Stat LR 5, p.199 - 200
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1985
1985.001	.	Mass Picketing and the 1875 Act	Crim LR (1985) 64
1985.002	.	‘Trade descriptions or how to tackle a problem of statutory interpretation’	135 NLJ 953
1985.003	.	‘The Crown Prosecution Service’	LSG (1985) 3676
1985.004	T042L	Juries trying aliens	The Times, 17 Jun 1985
1985.005	T043L	The missing concept of courtesy	The Times, 10 Sep 1985
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1986
1986.001	Book 11	INFORMATION SOURCES IN LAW	ed R Logan (chapter 3), Publishing Details
1986.002	Book 12	THE ALL ENGLAND LAW REPORTS ANNUAL REVIEW 1985 (chapter entitled ‘Statute Law’)	Published by Butterworths
1986.003	.	‘The Crown Prosecution Service’	Crim LR (1986) 3
1986.004	.	‘A point on the Companies Consolidation’	130 Sol J (1986) 736
1986.005	Book 13	THE CONSUMER CREDIT ACT MANUAL (3rd edn)	Publishing Details
1986.006	.	‘Consumer credit: the narrowing of “linked transactions” in relation to the total charge for credit’	JBL (1986) 294
1986.007	.	‘The technique of codification’	Crim LR (1986) 295
1986.008	.	‘Attorney General as leader of the Bar’ (letter)	LSG 26 Mar 1986
1986.009	T044L	Why water shouldn’t be privatised	The Times, 6 May 1986
1986.010	T045L	Round-the-houses motor racing	The Times, 29 Aug 1986
1986.011	T046L	Walking to school	The Times, 22 Oct 1986
1986.012	A003L	Writing by computer I	Letter in The Author, Spring 1986
1986.013	A004L	Writing by computer II	Letter in The Author, Autumn 1986
1986.014	.	Independence of prosecution policy 1	Crim LR (1986) 197
1986.015	.	Independence of prosecution policy 2	Crim LR (1986) 704
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1987
1987.001	Book 14	THE ALL ENGLAND LAW REPORTS ANNUAL REVIEW 1986 (chapter entitled ‘Statute Law’)	Published by Butterworths
1987.002	.	‘Sterilisation of the mentally handicapped’ (letter)	LSG 26 Aug 1987
1987.003	SLR005L	‘The Parliamentary Counsel Office (letter)’	Stat LR (Spring 1987) 8, p.68
1987.004	.	‘Dilatory lawyers’ (letter)	LSG May 1987
1987.005	.	‘Aids and Morality’	.
1987.006	.	This document number is no longer in use.	.
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1988
1988.001	Book 15	THE ALL ENGLAND LAW REPORTS ANNUAL REVIEW 1987 (chapter entitled ‘Statute Law’)	Published by Butterworths
1988.002	Book 16	THE LAW COMMISSION AND LAW REFORM	ed G Zellick (pages 60 to 66), Publishing Details
1988.003	.	Statutory exceptions: a third knot in the Golden Thread?’	Crim LR (1988) 31
1988.004	.	Review of Legislative Drafting (3rd edn) by G C Thornton	NLJ (1988)
1988.005	.	Review of Legislative Drafting (3rd edn) by G C Thornton	SJ (1988)
1988.006	.	Review of Legislative Drafting (3rd edn) by G.C.Thornton	ICLQ (1988)
1988.007	.	‘Defending Liversidge v Anderson’ (letter)	DLJ 1988
1988.008	.	‘Ignorant criticism of STATUTE LAW and STATUTORY INTERPRETATION’	LS 1988
1988.009	T047L	An accused’s right to silence	The Times, 26 Oct 1988
1988.010	T048L	Justice must be seen to be done	The Times, 16 Dec 1988
1988.011	A005	Self publishing: Two servants needed	The Author, Spring 1988
Doc. No.	Pub. No.	Title	Publication
1989
1989.001	Book 17	THE ALL ENGLAND LAW REPORTS ANNUAL REVIEW 1988 (chapter entitled ‘Statute Law’)	Published by Butterworths
1989.002	Book 18	STATUTORY INTERPRETATION (1st edn Supplement)	Publishing Details
1989.003	.	‘Consent to Surgery on a Mentally-handicapped Adult’	133 Sol J (1989) 245
1989.004	.	‘Legal Practice by Academics’	133 Sol J (1989) 406
1989.005	.	‘Statute law reform: is anybody listening?’	133 Sol J (1989) 886
1989.006	.	‘Brutus v Cozens and the meaning of ordinary words’ (letter)	Crim LR (1989) 848
1989.007	Book 19	VICTORIAN RAILWAY DAYS	Publishing Details
1989.008	T049L	What’s wrong with Bar’s Chambers system	The Times, 28 Jan 1989
1989.009	T050L	Judges’ interference with Government	The Times, 11 May 1989
1989.010	T051L	Integrating Ulster with rest of UK	The Times, 3 Jun 1989
1989.011	T052L	Controlling football hooligans	The Times, 18 Sep 1989
1989.012	DT004L	‘Oxford Professor of Poetry: Heaney'	Sisson or Zephaniah?’, Daily Telegraph, 17 May 1989
1989.013	DT005L	‘Should courts be televised?’	Daily Telegraph, 25 May 1989
1989.014	DT006L	‘Poll tax politicking’	Daily Telegraph, 29 May 1989
1989.015	DT007L	‘The defects of proportional representation (PR)’	Daily Telegraph, 5 October 1989
1989.016	A006L	'Fighting off line editors I'	Letter in The Author, Summer 1989
1989.017	A007L	'Fighting off line editors II'	Letter in The Author, Winter 1989
1989.018	.	Democracyhuman rights and politicians	SJ 12 May 1989
1989.019	.	Spelling of Caernarvon	SJ Nov 1989
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