Bennion On Statutory Interpretation, 7th Edition

Bennion On Statutory Interpretation, 7th Edition by Diggory Bailey and Luke Norbury

Author	Diggory Bailey and Luke Norbury
Publication Date	2017
ISBN	9789386515988
Format	Hardcover
Publisher	LexisNexis

 

This is the Indian economy of the classic legal treatise, originally published in the UK by Reed Elsevier. The leading work on statutory interpretation, Bennion on Statutory Interpretation, is required reading for all lawyers, whether they design legislation, administer it, advise on it, or argue it in court. The Sixth Edition has been thoroughly rewritten and updated to ensure that it continues to be the primary text on statutory interpretation for today's practitioners. The text teaches how to extract the relevant interpretative criteria in determining the legal meaning and effect of all sorts of legislation in a straightforward and concise manner. The use of checklists helps to ensure that no points are missed. The importance of assessing legislative purpose is discussed. The reader is given a framework that allows them to comprehend legislation accurately and confidently.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part 1: General Introduction

Chapter 1 - Introduction and Overview 

Chapter 2 - Acts of Parliament

Chapter 3 - Delegated Legislation and Prerogative Instruments

Chapter 4 - Extent and Application of Acts

Chapter 5 - Commencement, Duration and Retrospection

Chapter 6 - Amendments, Repeals and Savings

Chapter 7 - Compliance with Legislation

Chapter 8 - Interpretation: Preliminary Matters

Chapter 9 - Interpretation: Key Principles

Chapter 10 - The Mischief and its Remedy

Chapter 11 - Purposive Construction

Chapter 12 - Construction against 'Absurdity'

Chapter 13 -  Construction against Evasion

Chapter 14 - Updating Construction

Chapter 15 - Mistakes in Legislation

Chapter 16 - Significance of Different Components of an Act

Chapter 17 - Significance of Different Drafting Devices

Chapter 18 - Statutory Definitions

Chapter 19 - Interpretation Act 1978

Chapter 20 - Linguistic Cannons of Construction: Introduction

Chapter 21 - Construction as a Whole

Chapter 22 - Construction as a Whole

Chapter 23 - Textual Analysis: Other Cannons of Construction

Chapter 24 - External Aids to Construction

Chapter 25 - Statue and The Common Law

Chapter 26 - Interpretative Principles Derived from Legal Policy: General

Chapter 27 - Doubtful Penalisation and Statutory Interference with Rights and Liberties

Chapter 28 - European Union Law

Chapter 29 - Human Rights

Appendix 1 - Interpretation Act 1978

Appendix 2 - Appendix to White Paper on Interpretation Act 1978

Appendix 3 - Parliamentary Materials - Background to Exclusionary Rule

Appendix 4 - Extract from Vienna Convention on The Law of Treaties

Appendix 5 - European Communities Act 1972

Appendix 6 - Extract from The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Appendix 7 - Human Rights Act 1998

Appendix 8 - Table of Origins

Appendix 9 - Table of Destinations