Bennion on statutory interpretation : a code / Oliver Jones ; consultant editor, F. A. R. Bennion.

London : LexisNexis, 2013.

6th edition

85341

Law -- Interpretation and construction -- Great Britain.

The code: summary of parts

Division one: Interpreter, instrument and enactment

I. The interpreter

II. The instrument to be interpreted: Acts of Parliament

III. The instrument to be interpreted: Subordinate legislation

IV. Commencement, amendment and repeal of Acts

V. Extent and application of Acts

VI. The enactment and the facts

Division two: The legal meaning of an enactment

VII. Grammatical and strained constructions

VIII. Legislative intention

IX. Filling in the textual detail

X. Interpretative criteria and interpretative factors

Division three: Rules of construction

XI. Rules of construction (general)

XII. Rules of construction laid down by statute

XIII.The informed interpretation rule (general)

XIV. The informed interpretation rule (legislative history)

XV. The functional construction rule

Division four: Interpretative principles derived from legal policy

XVI. Interpretative principles (general)

XVII. Principle against doubtful penalisation

Division five: Interpretative presumptions based on the nature of legislation

XVIII. Interpretative presumptions (general)

XIX. The mischief and its remedy

XX.Purposive construction

XXI.Construction against 'absurdity'

XXII. Construction against evasion

XXIII. Application of ancillary rules of law

XXIV. Application of ancillary legal maxims

Division six: Linguistic canons of construction

XXV. Linguistic cannons of construction: general

XXVI. Linguistic cannons of construction: use of deductive reasoning

XXVII. Linguistic cannons of construction: interpretation of particular words and phrases

XXVIII. Linguistic cannons of construction: elaboration of meaning of words and phrases

Division seven: Europe

XXIX. Community law

XXX. Human Rights Act 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bennion on statutory interpretation

Statutory interpretation : a code.

9781405765701

cclviii, 1273 pages ; 26 cm