Does legislation have you feeling down? Do you want to read about the plausible meaning rule, but you’re not sure where to start? Or have you wondered about the difference between ordinary and technical meaning of legislation? Are you interpreting statutes into the wee hours of the morning?
If you said yes, then The Construction of Statutes by Ruth Sullivan (formerly ‘Sullivan on the Construction of Statutes’) is the book for you!
This title can help you learn more about:
- The traditional rules, principles, and evolution of interpreting legislation.
- How to interpret certain words in legislation (and, or, may, shall, must) and statutory definitions.
- The relationship between legislation and the common law, including when the common law can supplement legislation or be relied upon in interpreting legislation.
- The principles of textual and purposive analysis.
- Temporal operation and temporal application of legislation.
- Interpreting bilingual and bijural legislation.
- and much more!
The Construction of Statutes is available on the public access computers at all our Courthouse Libraries BC locations. Next time you’re in the library, search for the title in the library catalogue on the computer and click on the digital access link; this will take you straight to the digital title in Lexis Advance..
We also have this title available in print. If you want to borrow the book or request scans through our document delivery service, please contact us at librarian@courthouselibrary.ca or 1-800-665-2570.
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