Title: The statute :
Authors: Bigwood, Rick; Legal Research Foundation (University of Auckland)
Date: 2004
Publisher: LexisNexis,
Physical description: xxxiv, 308 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: K
Abstract: This book collects papers presented at a conference held by the Legal Research Foundation in May 2003: The Statute - Making and meaning. The conference focussed on legal method in relation to statutes, recognising the increasingly important role that legislation has in the legal system. Conference speakers addressed both the approach of parliament to making statutes and the judicial process in interpreting them.
Contents: THE MAKING OF STATUTES -- The convergence of rules and standards / Fredrick Schauer - On Schauer's "Convergence of rules and standards" / Janet McLean - Confronting the process of statute-making / George Tanner - On Tanner's "Confronting the process of statute-making" / Stephen Franks -- SOURCES AND PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION -- Reading down statutes / Jim Evans - Filling the gaps / Susan Glazebrook - Sources of problems of interpretation : a commentary / Alan Galbraith -- INTERPRETATION AND PARLIAMENT -- Parliamentary sovereignty and statutory interpretation / Jeffrey Goldsworthy - The Interpretation Act 1999 / John Burrows - Purpose, Hansard, rights, and language / John McGrath -- THE INFLUENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTS -- The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on the interpretation of enactments in the UK / Justice Laws - Interpreting and invalidating enactments under a bill of rights : three inquiries in comparative perspective / Paul Rishworth - Interpreting statutory bills of rights : the deleterious effects of "do the right thing" thinking / James Allan.
Notes: "The Legal Research Foundation ... [brought] together from Australia, the UK, and the US, as well as New Zealand, members of the practising profession ..., the universities, and the judiciary to discuss the primary source of our law. ... a very full day of discussion, led by paper givers and commentators ... We have before us a result a rich fare ..."--Foreword, p.v.
Subject headings (LCSH): Human rights--New Zealand.; Law--Interpretation and construction--Congresses; Law--New Zealand--Interpretation and construction--Congresses.; Law--New Zealand--Interpretation and construction.; Legislation--Congresses.; Legislation--New Zealand--Congresses.; Legislation--New Zealand.; Statutes--New Zealand.