Craies on Legislation: A Practitioner's Guide to the Nature, Process, Effect and Interpretation of Legislation 13th ed

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Concepts and classes;

Acts of Parliament;

Subordinate legislation;

Devolved legislation;

Primary legislation;

Subordinate legislation;

Devolved legislation;

Drafting of legislation;

Access to legislation;

Timing;

Extent and application;

Statutory rights, powers and duties;

Statutory corporations;

Effect on other law;

Errors in legislation;

Introduction to statutory interpretation;

The cardinal rule: construction according to plain meaning;

Literal or purposive interpretation;

Rebuttable presumptions of Construction;

Other canons and principles of Construction;

Expressions which change meaning over time;

The Interpretation Act 1978;

Other general interpretation provisions;

Other specific interpretation provisions;

Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998;

Use of parts of legislation other than text for construction;

Use of extraneous materials in construing legislation;

The rule in Pepper v Hart;

Interpretation of special kinds of legislation;

Nature of European Legislation;

The legislative process;

Effect and interpretation;

Appendix Extracts and Appendices