BENNION ON STATUTORY INTERPRETATION ... - Francis Bennion

BENNION ON STATUTORY INTERPRETATION
Fifth Edition Updating Notes (Version 24, 25 Mar 2010)
Section 104. Uniform meaning throughout area of extent ................................................................ 31
Section 105. Composition of an enactment‟s territory...................................................................... 31
Section 106. Presumption of United Kingdom extent ...................................................................... 31
Section 128. General principles as to application ............................................................................. 31
Section 129. Application to foreigners and foreign matters within the territory .............................. 31
Section 131. Application to Britons and British matters outside the territory .................................. 32
Section 133. Deemed location of an omission .................................................................................. 32
Section 134. Deemed location of composite act or composite omission .......................................... 32
Part VI. The Enactment and the Facts ............................................................................................. 32
Section 136. Applying the enactment to the facts ............................................................................. 32
Section 139. Selective comminution ................................................................................................. 32
Section 142. Drafting presumed competent ...................................................................................... 32
Section 144. The legal thrust............................................................................................................. 33
Section 145. Relevant and irrelevant facts ........................................................................................ 33
Section 146. Proof of relevant facts .................................................................................................. 33
Section 149. Opposing constructions of an enactment ..................................................................... 33
Division Two. The Legal Meaning of an Enactment ........................................................................ 33
Part VII. Grammatical and Strained Constructions ....................................................................... 33
Section 150. Nature of the legal meaning ......................................................................................... 33
Section 158. When strained construction needed ............................................................................. 34
Part VIII. Legislative Intention ......................................................................................................... 34
Section 163: Legislative intention as the paramount criterion .......................................................... 34
Section 164. Is legislative intention fictitious? ................................................................................. 34
Section 166. The duplex approach to legislative intention ............................................................... 34
Section 167. Legislative intention and delegation to the court ......................................................... 34
Section 171. Intention distinguished from motive ............................................................................ 35
Part IX. Filling in the Textual Detail ................................................................................................. 35
Section 172. Nature of a legislative implication ............................................................................... 35
Section 173. Is it legitimate to draw implications? ........................................................................... 35
Section 174. When legislative implications are legitimate ............................................................... 35
Section 175. When legislative implications affect related law ......................................................... 36
Section 176. Dynamic processing by the court (stare decisis) .......................................................... 36
Section 177. Interstitial articulation (general) ................................................................................... 36
Section 179. Interstitial articulation by the court .............................................................................. 37
Part X. Interpretative Criteria and Interpretative Factors ............................................................ 37
Section 182. Strict and liberal construction ...................................................................................... 37
Section 185. Interpretative factors all pointing one way ................................................................... 37
Division Three. Rules of Construction .............................................................................................. 37
Part XI. Rules of Construction (General) ......................................................................................... 37
Section 192. Nature of rules of construction ..................................................................................... 37
Section 193. Basic rule of statutory interpretation ............................................................................ 38
Section 195. The plain meaning rule ................................................................................................ 38
Section 197. The commonsense construction rule ............................................................................ 38
Section 198. The rule ut res magis valeat quam pereat ..................................................................... 39
Part XII Rules of Construction Laid Down by Statute ................................................................... 39
Section 199. Statutory definitions ..................................................................................................... 39
Section 200. The Interpretation Act 1978 ......................................................................................... 40
Part XIII. The Informed Interpretation Rule (General) ................................................................. 40
Section 201. Statement of the rule .................................................................................................... 40
Section 202 The „context‟ of an enactment ...................................................................................... 41
Section 205. Interpreter‟s need for legal knowledge ........................................................................ 41
Section 210. The pre-Act law ........................................................................................................... 41
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