Craies on Legislation (South Asian Edition)

Craies on Legislation is the complete practitioners' guide to the nature, process, effect and interpretation of legislation. It is regularly cited to and by the higher courts, and it is relied upon by lawyers in the public and private sectors for shedding light on the widest range of questions in relation to how legislation is made, applied, challenged and interpreted.

The 12th Edition covers: the classification of primary, subordinate and a growing range of quasi-legislation; the potential of and constraints on all kinds of legislation, including devolved legislation; the legislative process for all kinds of legislation; drafting of different kinds of legislation; explanatory material (including Explanatory Notes and Pepper v Hart); issues of effect from timing and application, the exercise of statutory functions, statutory corporations, effect on other law and errors in legislation (including an account of increasing judicial activism in rectification); the rules, presumptions and canons and principles of statutory interpretation; and a discussion of the effects of EU legislation in UK law.

All recent developments are covered in the 12th Edition including discussion of the developing relationship between legislation and the prerogative, Parliament and the Executive (including Miller 1 and 2 - the Brexit cases), discussion of the latest judicial attitudes to the relationship between legislation and the common law (including the recent Tate Gallery decision on nuisance), and hundreds of other recent cases and political developments (including an account of fundamental changes to legislation in Wales).

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