Craies on Legislation is the complete practitioners' guide to the nature, process, effect and interpretation of legislation. It is regularly cited to and by the higher courts, and it is relied upon by lawyers in the public and private sectors for shedding light on the widest range of questions in relation to how legislation is made, applied, challenged and interpreted.
This new edition features:
New material on emergency legislation, including rule of law lessons from COVID-19 legislation
Validation legislation
New judicial applications of old presumptions and principles
Consideration of secret law
Supreme Court codification of principles of interpretation
Changes in treatment of EU-derived legislation