Statutory Interpretation in United Kingdom

Biography by Authors

Anonymous:

• First Report of the Statute Law Commissioners
• Report of Royal Commission on Income Tax (1920)
• Report of Street Offences Committee (1928)
• Report of Committee on Ministers’ Powers (Donoughmore Report, 1932)
• Report of Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Committee (Greer Report, 1932)
• Fifth Interim Report (Statutes of Limitation) of Law Revision Committee (1936)
• Report of Royal Commission on Common Land (1955–58)
• Delegated Legislation in India (1964), Indian Law Institute
• Eighth Report of Criminal Law Revision Committee (1966)
• Report of Committee of Privileges on Petition of the Irish Peers (1966) HL Session Papers (53)
• Report of Committee on Legal Education (1971)
• American Law Institute (Restatement – Second) Conflict of Laws s 110 (1971)
• Report of Committee on the Preparation of Legislation (Renton Report, 1975)
• Report of Advisory Group on Law of Rape (Heilbron Report, 1975)
• Report of Committee of Privy Councillors appointed to inquire into the recruitment of mercenaries (1976)
• Report of Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure (1981)
• ‘Extrinsic Aids to Statutory Interpretation’ (Australian Government, Canberra, 1982)
• Instructions issued by Management and Personnel Office (1982)
• Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules, (1982-83) HC Paper No 169
• Report of a Symposium on Statutory Interpretation held at Canberra (1983) A-G’s Department, Australian Government
• Review of Public Order Law (1985)
• 6th Report of Select Committee on the European Communities, Unfair Contract Terms, HL Paper 28, January 1992
• Statutory Instrument Practice (2003) Cabinet Office/HMSO, 3rd edn
• Guide to Legislative Procedures (2004) Cabinet Office
• Devolution: Its Effect on the Practice of Legislation at Westminster (2004) HL Paper
• Report of Commission on the Powers and Electoral Arrangements of the National Assembly for Wales 2004
• ‘Less is More: Reducing Burdens, Improving Outcomes’ (2005) Better Regulation Task Force.
• The Governance of Britain (2007) CM 7170 (Green Paper)
• Allan, T R S: ‘Filching Your Opponent’s Papers in Court: When Privilege Cannot be Defeated by a Trick’ (1983) 133 NLJ 665

Allen, Carleton Kemp:

• Legal Duties (1931) Oxford: Clarendon
• ‘Administrative Consultation of the Judiciary’ (1931) 47 LQR 43
• Law and Orders, 1st edn 1945, 3rd edn 1965, Stevens & Sons
• Law in the Making 4th edn 1946, 7th edn 1966, Oxford: Clarendon
• Allen, Layman: ‘Symbolic Logic: A Razor Edged Tool for Drafting and Interpreting Legal Documents’ (1957) 66 Yale LJ 833
• Amos, Maurice Sheldon: ‘The Interpretation of Statutes’ (1934) 5 CLJ
• Andrews, J: ‘Conspiracy and Criminal Law Reform’ [1976] Crim LR
• Anson, W: Law and Custom of the Constitution (4th edn, 1935)
• Arbab-Dehkordi, B: ‘Statistical Analysis of Statutory Texts’ CL May 1982
• Archbold, J F: Pleading, Evidence and Practice in Criminal Cases (37th edn,
  1969) Sweet & Maxwell
• Ashworth, Andrew: ‘Social control and “anti-social behaviour”: the subversion
  of human rights?’, 120 LQR (April 2004), 263-291
• Atiyah, Patrick S: ‘The Legacy of Holmes Through English Eyes’ (1983) 63
  Boston ULR
• Bacon, Francis: Maxims of the Law (Bac Max Reg) (c 1600)
• Bacon, Matthew: Bacon’s Abridgement: A New Abridgement of the Law (Bac
  Abr), 5 vols,
• Barlow, N L A: ‘Possession of Minute Quantities of a Drug’ [1977] Crim LR 26

Barnes, Jeffrey W:

• ‘Statutory Interpretation, Law Reform and Sampford’s Theory of the Disorder of Law’ Pt I (1994) Fed L R (Australia) p 116
• ‘Statutory Interpretation, Law Reform and Sampford’s Theory of the Disorder
  of Law’ Pt II (1995) Fed LR (Australia) p 77
• Barrington, Daines: Observations upon the Statutes, 1st edn 1760, 2nd edn
  1767, Dublin, Grierson & Watts
• Barwick, Garfield (Chief Justice of Australia): ‘Divining Legislative Intent’
  (1961) 35 ALJ 197

Bates, St J N:

• ‘Privatised Drafting and the Finance Bill’, Scots LT, 24 May 1996
• ‘Schedules in Scotland’, (1996) Juridical R 77
• Beatson, Jack (Mr Justice Beatson): ‘Has the common law a future?’
  Inaugural lecture. (1997) 56 CLJ 291
• Beaulac, Stéphane: ‘Driedger’s “Modern Principle” at the Supreme Court of
  Canada: Interpretation, Justification, Legitimization’ (with Pierre-André Côté),
  11-Revue-book

Bentham, Jeremy:

• A Comment on the Commentaries: a criticism of William Blackstone’s
  Commentaries on the Laws of England (1928, C W Everett ed) Oxford:
  Clarendon P 24
• An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1907) Oxford:
  Clarendon
• Of Laws in General (1970, H L A Hart, ed) Athlone Press

Bingham of Cornhill, Lord:

• ‘A Criminal Code: Must We Wait for Ever?’ (1998) Crim LR
• BBC Radio Four, Today, 24 June 1999; The Times, 25 June 1999

Birks, Peter:

• Law and Interpretation, Essays in Legal Philosophy (OUP, 1995)
• ‘The academic and the practitioner’ 18 LS (1998)
• Blackstone, William: Commentaries on the Laws of England (Oxford:
  Clarendon P, 1st edn, 1765-1769)
• Blom-Cooper, Louis: The Birmingham Six and Other Cases (1997)

Brazil, Patrick:

• ‘Legislative history and the sure and true interpretation of statutes in general
  and the Constitution in particular’ 4 U of Queensland LJ (1961–1964)
• ‘Reform of Statutory Interpretation—the Australian Experience of Use of
  Extrinsic Materials: with a Postscript on Simpler Drafting’ 62 ALJ (1988)
• Brooke, Henry (Lord Justice Brooke): ‘Interventions in the Court of Appeal’,
  [2007] PL Autumn

Broom, Herbert:

• Legal Maxims: A selection of legal maxims, classified and illustrated 1st edn
  1845, 10th edn (R H Kersley, ed) 1939, Sweet & Maxwell
• Commentaries on the Laws of England (with E A Hadley) (1869, W Maxwell
  & Son)
• Brown-Wilkinson, Lord: ‘The Infiltration of a Bill of Rights’ (1992) PL 397
• Brownlie, I: Principles of Public International Law 5th edn, 1998 Oxford:
  Clarendon
• Bryson J: ‘Statutory Interpretation: An Australian Judicial Perspective’ (1992)
  Stat LR 187

Buckland, W W:

• A Textbook of Roman Law 2nd edn, 1950, CUP
• Roman Law and Common Law (with A D McNair), 2nd edn, 1952, CUP
• Burn, Richard: The Ecclesiastical Law 1st edn 1763, 9th edn (R Phillimore,
  ed) 1842, Sweet

Burrow, James:

• Settlement Cases (1768)
• De Ratione Et Usu Interpungendi: An Essay on Punctuation (1772)
• Burrows, J F: New Zealand Commentary on Halsbury’s Laws of England tit.
  Statutes
• Calvert, H G: Constitutional Law in Northern Ireland (1968) Stevens & Sons 218n
  Cardus, Neville: Autobiography (1947) Collins
• Carnwath, Robert: ‘The Thornton Heresy Exposed: Financial Remedies for
  Breach of Public Duties’ [1998] PL 407

Carr, Cecil Thomas:

• Delegated Legislation (1921), CUP
• Administrative Law in England (1941), OUP
• ‘Parliamentary Control of Delegated Legislation’ (1956) PL 200
• Carter, Ross: ‘“The enactment is self-explanatory . . . or is it?” – Explanatory
  Provisions in New Zealand Legislation’ (with Matthew Green), 28.1 Stat LR
  (2007) 2
• Chalmers, McKenzie D: Sale of Goods Act 12th edn 1945, 18th edn 1981,
  Butterworths
• Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales Guild edn (1986), trans Neville
  Coghill
• Chitty, J, jun, Prerogatives of the Crown (1820)

Cicero:

• De Oratore (55 BC)
• De Legibus
• Cockburn, Lord: Memorials of His Time 1st edn 1856, 4th edn 1945 ed W
  Forbes Gray, Edinburgh, Robert Grant & Sons Ltd
• Cocks, Ray: ‘Ram, Rab and the civil servants: a lawyer and the making of the
  “Great Education Act 1944”‘, 21 LS (March 2001), 15
• Cohen, M D: ‘Is it a Crime to Prevent a Crime?’ (1982) 126 Sol

Corry, J A:

• ‘The Interpretation of Statutes’ (reprinted in revised form in E A Driedger, The
  Construction of Statutes (1st edn, 1974) App I p 203)
• ‘The Use of Legislative History in the Interpretation of Statutes’ 32 Can Bar
  Rev (1954)

Côté, Pierre-André:

• ‘Driedger’s “Modern Principle” at the Supreme Court of Canada:
  Interpretation, Justification, Legitimization’ (with Stéphane Beaulac), 11-
  Revue-book, 8 June 2006
• The Interpretation of Legislation in Canada 2nd edn 1992, 3rd edn 2000
  Editions Yvon Blais
• Cowen, D V: ‘Legislature and Judiciary – Reflections on the Constitutional
  Issues in South Africa: Part I’, 15 MLR (1952)
• Cowley, David: ‘Constructive Manslaughter: New Limits’ (1983) 133 NLJ

Craies, W F:

• Craies on Statute Law 1st ed 1907, 7th ed (ed S G G Edgar) 1971), 8th ed
  (ed Daniel Greenberg, title changed to Craies on Legislation) 2004, sup
  2005), Sweet & Maxwell
• Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th edn, 1911) CUP, vol 18, tit Misdemeanour
• Craig, Paul: EU Law (with Grainne de Burca), 3rd edn 2003, OUP
• Cretney, Stephen: ‘The Law Commission: True Dawns and False Dawns’
  (1996) 59 MLR
• Croke, George: Croke’s Reports 1603-25 (79 ER)

Cross, Rupert:

• Cross on Evidence 1st edn 1970, 9th edn 1999, Butterworths
• Precedent in English Law 3rd edn 1977, 4th edn 1991 (ed J W Harris),
  Oxford, Clarendon
• Statutory Interpretation 1st edn 1976, 2nd edn 1987 & 3rd edn 1995 ed by John Bell and George Engle, Butterworths
• Curtis, Charles P: ‘A Better Theory of Legal Interpretation’ (1949) 4 The
  Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Davis, G R C: Magna Carta (1965), Trustees of the British Museum
• De Burca, Grainne: EU Law (with Paul Craig), 3rd edn 2003, OUP

Denning, Lord:

• Review of P.H. Winfield, A Textbook of the Law of Tort, 63 LQR (1947)
• The Discipline of Law (1979) Butterworths
• The Due Process of Law (1980) Butterworths
• What Next in the Law (1982) Butterworths
• ‘The Judge and The Law’ 1985 PL 800

Devlin, Lord:

• The Enforcement of Morals (1959) Oxford University Press
• Samples of Lawmaking (1962) Oxford University Press
• The Judge (1979) Oxford University Press
• Diamond, Aubrey L: ‘Repeal and Desuetude of Statutes’ (CLP 1975, p 107

Dias, R W M:

• ‘The Value of a Value-study of Law’ (1965) 28 MLR
• Jurisprudence, 4th edn 1976, 5th edn 1985, Butterworths 24

Dicey, A V:

• Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution 9th edn, 1939, 10th
  edn, 1959 Macmillan & Co
• The Conflict of Laws (with J H C Morris) 12th edn, 1993, Sweet & Maxwell 1192
  Dickerson, Reed
• The Interpretation and Application of Statutes (Little, Brown 1965) 7
  Materials on Legal Drafting (1981) West Publishing
• Dingwall, Gavin: ‘Statutory Exceptions, Burdens of Proof and the Human
  Rights Act 1998’, 65 MLR May 2002,
• Diplock, Lord: Courts and Legislators (Holdsworth Club Presidential Address,
  1965
• Dockray, M S: ‘The Inherent Jurisdiction to Regulate Civil Proceedings’
  (1997) 113 LQR

Driedger, Elmer A:

• The Construction of Statutes 1st edn 1974, 3rd edn 1994, 4th edn 2002 (ed
  Ruth Sullivan), Butterworths, Markham, Ont
• And see Côté, Pierre-André: Dwarris, Fortunatus: A General Treatise on Statutes and their Rules of Construction, 1st edn 1760, 3rd edn (Platt Potter, ed), W Gould, 1871

Dworkin, Ronald:

• ‘Is law a system of rules?’ in R Dworkin (Ed), The Philosophy of Law (1977) p
  38, Oxford University Press
• The Philosophy of Law (ed, 1977) Oxford University Press
• Taking Rights Seriously (1977) Duckworth
• Law’s Empire, 1986, Oxford University Press 14,
• Dworkin, Gerald – see Odgers, Charles
• Eardley-Wilmot, J E: Lord Brougham’s Law Reforms (1860)
• Edgar, S G G – see Craies, W F
• Edwards, J L G: The Law Officers of the Crown (1964) Sweet & Maxwell
• Edwards, Susan: ‘Beyond belief—the case of Zoora Shah’ 148 NLJ (1996)
• Engle, George – see Cross, Rupert
• Ert, Gibb van: ‘What is treaty implementation?’ (paper delivered at the conference of the Canadian Council of International Law, Ottawa, 15 October 2004)
• Eskridge, William: Dynamic Statutory Interpretation, Harvard University Press, 1994
• Evans, J: Statutory Interpretation: Problems of Communication (1988) Oxford University Press
• Everett, C W – see Bentham, Jeremy

Evershed, Lord:

• The Court of Appeal in England (1950) Athlone Press
• ‘The Impact of Statute on the Law of England’ 42 P B Acad (1956)
• Ewing, K D: Constitutional and Administrative Law (with A W Bradley;
  successor to Wade and Phillips, qv), 14th edn, 2007, Pearson
• Fagan, J: ‘The Legal Phoenix: The Plain Meaning Rule is Dead, Long Live the Rule!’ (1993) 29 Cal WLR

Falconer of Thoroton, Lord:

• ‘Doing Law Differently’, April 2006
• Judicial Appointments Commission Framework Document, 24 October 2006
  (with Baroness Prashar)
• Ferguson, William: ‘Necessity and Duress in Scots Law’ [1986] Crim LR 103 1136n
  Fleta
• Fortescue, John: De Laudibus Legum Angliae (1616)
• Fowler, H W: Modern English Usage
• Frankfurter, Felix: ‘Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes’ (1947)
• The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Friedmann, W G: Legal Theory (2nd edn, 1949) Stevens & Sons
• Gane, C P: Flow Charts, Logical Trees and Algorithms for Rules and
  Regulations (with I S Horabin and C P Gane) (1967) HMSO.
• Gardiner, Gerald (Lord Gardiner): Law Reform Now (with Andrew Martin,
  eds) 1963, Victor Gollancz Ltd
• Geddes, R S: Statutory Interpretation in Australia (with D C Pearce) 1st edn
  1974, 6th edn 2003, Butterworths
• Geny, Francois: Méthode d’Interprétation et Sources en Droit Privé Positif, tr
  Jaro Mayda 2nd edn, 1954 Louisiana State Law Institute
• Ghosh, I J: ‘The Construction of Fiscal Legislation’.[1994] BTR 126 588n, 607n
  Gibson, J: ‘The ownership of the seabed under British territorial waters’ 6 Int
  Rel (1978),
• Gifford, DJ: Statutory Interpretation (1990) Law Book Co
• Goffmann, Erving: Stigma (1968) Penguin

Goodhart, A L:

• ‘No Genus’, (1954) 70 LQR
• Note on Race Relations Board v Charter (1973) 89 LQR 315
• Gordon, Richard: ‘Counting the Cost of Hansard’ (with Chris Ward), Loc Auth
  L, 27 January 1993 p 7
• Goudie, James: Comment in Note of Plenary Session (chaired by Richard
  Gordon QC) of Seminar on Pepper v Hart held at Balliol College Oxford on 15
  and 16 April 1994
• Gough, W J: Company Charges, 3rd edn forthcoming, LexisNexis Butterworths
• Gowers, Ernest: The Complete Plain Words 2nd edn 1973, rev 1977, 3rd edn
  1986, HMSO
• Graham, R N: ‘A Unitarian Theory of Statutory Interpretation’, 1999, York University
• Gray, J C: The Nature and Sources of Law (2nd edn, 1921) Macmillan Co 475, 481
  Gray, W Forbes – see Cockburn, Lord
• Green, Matthew: ‘“The enactment is self-explanatory . . . or is it?” –
  Explanatory Provisions in New Zealand Legislation’ (with Ross Carter), 28.1
  Stat LR (2007) 2
• Greenberg, Daniel – see Craies, W F
• Greenwood, Christopher: ‘European Community Law’ in All ER Rev 1990,
  102-109
• Greschner, Donna: ‘Human Rights—Statutory Interpretation—Affirmative
  Action’ (with Ken Norman), 63 Can Bar Rev (1985) 805
• Griffith, J A G: Principles of Administrative Law (with A G Street) 5th edn, 1973, Pitman
• Grey, Thomas: ‘Do We Have an Unwritten Constitution?’ (1975) 27 Stan L Rev 703
• Gummow, W M C (Justice Gummow): Change and Continuity – Statute, Equity, and Federalism (1999) OUP
• Gunasekara, Gehan N: ‘Judicial Reasoning by Analogy with Statutes: Now an
  Accepted Technique in New Zealand?’ (1998) 19 Stat LR 177
• Hadley, E A: Commentaries on the Laws of England (with Herbert Broom)
  (1869, W Maxwell & Son)
• Hailsham of St Marylebone, Lord: Hamlyn Revisited: the British Legal System
  Today (1983)
• Hale, Matthew: The History of the Pleas of the Crown (1736)
• Halkerston, Peter: Latin Maxims, A collection of Latin maxims & rules, in law
  and equity, selected from the most eminent authors, on the civil, canon,
  feudal, English and Scots law, with an English translation, and an appendix of
  reference to the authorities from which the maxims are selected
• Hanbury, H G: Modern Equity 5th edn, 1949, 17th edn 2005, Sweet &
  Maxwell
• Hardcastle, H: Statutory Law (1st edn, 1879)
• Hargrave, Francis: Collection of Tracts relative to the Law of England (Hargrave’s Law Tracts) 1787, Dublin
• Harries, Jill: Law and Empire in Late Antiquity, CUP 1999 (see Justinian)
• Harris, D J: Law of the European Convention on Human Rights (with M O’Boyle and C Warbrick) 1st edn 1995, 2nd edn 2005, Butterworths
• Harris, J W – see Cross, Rupert
• Harrison, W Graham: Notes on the Delegation by Parliament of Legislative Powers (1931)
• Harrison, Nicolas: ‘Unreported Cases: Myth and Reality’ (1984) 257

Hartley, Trevor C:

• The Foundations of European Community Law 3rd edn, 1994, 6th edn, 2007,
  OUP, p 87
• ‘Five Forms of Uncertainty in European Community Law’ [1996] CLJ
• Hatsell, J: Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons under separate titles (1818)
• Hatton, Christopher: A Treatise Concerning Statutes, or Acts of Parliament:
  And the exposition Thereof (printed for Richard Tonson, London, 1677)
• Hawkins, W: A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown (6th edn, 1788) Lynch
• Heathcote-Amory, David: The European Constitution and What It Means for Britain (2003)
• Herman, Shael: ‘Quot judices tot sententiae: A study of the English reaction to continental interpretive (sic) techniques’ (1 LS 165, at p 180)
• Heuston, R F V: Essays in Constitutional Law (2nd edn, 1964) Stevens & Sons
• Hine, R L: Confessions of an Uncommon Attorney (1949) Dent
• Hobbes, Thomas: Dialogue of the Common Laws (1681)
• Hogan, B: Criminal Law 8th edn 1996 (with J C Smith), Butterworths Tolley;
  11th edn (David Ormerod ed) 2005

Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr (Justice Holmes):

• The Common Law (1881), Little, Brown & Co
• ‘The Path of the Law’, 10 Harv LR (1897) 461; Collected Legal Papers (1920)
  Constable & Co
• ‘The Theory of Legal Interpretation’ (1898–99) 12 Harv LR 417
• Honoré, Tony: The Quest for Security: Employees, Tenants, Wives (1982) Stevens
• Horabin, I S: Flow Charts, Logical Trees and Algorithms for Rules and Regulations (with B N Lewis and C P Gane) (1967) HMSO.
• Hudon, Edward G: ‘Case. Comment’ 55 Can Bar Rev (1977)
• Hunt, Brian: The Irish Statute Book – A Guide to Irish Legislation (First Law Limited, Dublin, 2007)
• Hunt, Murray: ‘The Human Rights Act and Legal Culture: The Judiciary and the Legal Profession’, 26.1 J Law & Soc, March 1999
• Hume, David: Commentaries on the Law of Scotland Respecting the Description and Punishment of Crimes 1st edn 1797, 4th edn 1844
• Hutton, Noël (First Parliamentary Counsel): ‘The Citation of Statutes’ 82 LQR (1966)
• Ilbert, Courtenay P: Legislative Methods and Forms (1901) Oxford: Clarendon
• Irvine of Lairg, Lord: ‘The Development of Human Rights Under an Incorporated Convention on. Human Rights’ [1998] PL 221
• Jackson, Robert H: ‘The Meaning of Statutes: What Congress Says or What the Court Says’ 34 ABAJ (1948) 535