Statute Law Review - recent issues

Constitutional Guarantees

Laws, S. J. — 2008-07-22

A Damn Close Run Thing--The Companies Act 2006

Bovey, P. — 2008-07-22

The Bridge That Choked a Watercourse or Repetitive Dictionary Disorder

Munday, R. — 2008-07-22

Does It Work?--Reviewing Legislative Drafts Before Others Have a Chance

Watson-Brown, A. — 2008-07-22

The Retrospective Dimension of the 2002-03 Australian Personal Injuries Reforms

Morgan, D. G. — 2008-07-22

The Principle of 'interpretation conforme': How Far Can or Should National Courts Go when Interpreting National Legislation Consistently with European Community Law?

Sawyer, K. — 2007-11-12

The Scots Statute Style and Substance

Jamieson, N. — 2007-11-12

New or renewed legislatures afford opportunities for reassessing old legislatures, and introducing new and improved forms of legislative composition. Thus the North American experience, derived from the breakaway Colonies, came down heavily against referential legislation, the Australian and New Zealand experience implemented many Benthamite reforms ahead of the Old Country, and the tabula rasa afforded generally by Colonial and Commonwealth legislation at first enabled, and eventually enforced on its parent legislature, an explicit and consistently adhered to system of textual amendment. In view of the opportunities afforded by Scottish Devolution, what innovations may we expect of the new Scottish statute? Thanks to the earlier work of Coode,1 to the continuing surveillance of the Statute Law Society,2 to the committed enthusiasm of parliamentary counsel such as Driedger,3 Dale,4 and Bennion,5 and especially to the seminal work of linguistic analysts such as Plowden,6 Mellinkoff,7 Frye,8 and Bowers,9 new theories, practices, forms, and precedents abound as never before for statute law. Nevertheless, there are also questions of tradition, culture, and national identity at issue—especially for a restored or reborn legislature such as the present Scottish Parliament.10 This paper examines some of the issues, both in terms of legislative style and legislative substance, which pertain to the new Scottish statute.

A Tight Fit ? Deficiencies in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Research Purposes) Regulations 2001

Morgan, R. — 2007-11-12

Over-Regulation and Suing the State for Negligent Legislation

Blake, L., Pointing, J., Sinnamon, T. — 2007-11-12

Constitutional statutes

2007-08-03

Legislative Drafting and Language in Canada

Lortie, S., Bergeron, R. C. — 2007-08-03

Limitation and Adverse Possession Dead but Not Forgotten

Scanlan, G. — 2007-08-03

Are Inseverability Clauses Constitutional?

Kameny, F. — 2007-08-03

Combating Money Laundering in Nigeria: An Appraisal of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act 2004

Okogbule, N. S. — 2007-08-03