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Zusatztext Bennion is outstanding in conceptualising statutory interpretation. Informationen zum Autor F.A.R. Bennion was formerly one of the Parliamentary Counsel, responsible for drafting British legislation. His drafting work includes, among much constitutional and other legislation, the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Sex Discrimination Act 1975. As a constitutional lawyer, he has also advised at various times the governments of Pakistan, Ghana, Jamaica, and Gibraltar. He drafted constitutions for Pakistan (1956) and Ghana (1959-1961) on those countries attaining the status of independent republics. He was also formerly law tutor at St Edmund Hall in the University of Oxford, and is still a member of the University's law faculty. Klappentext There are many countries that use and apply the common law, which collectively may be called the common law world. A feature of this world is that nowadays it largely operates through statutes enacted by a country's democratic legislature, and that these mainly fall to be construed according to a uniform system of rules, presumptions, principles and canons evolved over centuries by common law judges. The statutes subject to this interpretative regime may be called common law statutes. They are the main subject of this book, along with the said uniform system. The book distills and updates within a brief compass the author's published writings on statute law and statutory interpretation which span a period of nearly forty years, being contained in half a dozen books and many more articles. Zusammenfassung The common law world (the Commonwealth and United States) operates through statutes applied under a uniform system, the essence of which is uniquely described in this book. Francis Bennion, the renowned Oxford don and legislative draftsman, here distills forty years of prolific writings on statute law and statutory interpretation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Basic concepts I: common law statutes; the enactment; legal meaning; factual outline and legal thrust; implied ancillary rules 2: Basic concepts II: opposing constructions; literal, purposive and developmental interpretations 3: Grammatical and strained meanings 4: Consequential and rectifying constructions 5: Contradictory enactments and updating construction 6: Drafting techniques and the Interpretation Act 7: Transitional provisions and the Cohen question 8: Words in pairs 9: Rules of interpretation 10: Legal policy 11: Interpretative presumptions 12: Linguistic canons and interpretative technique 13: The nature of judgment 14: The nature of discretion 15: The European Union and the HRA 16: The jurisprudential basis of the common law method 17: The common law system in America 18: Techniques of law management ...
