Craies on Legislation: A Practitioner's Guide to the Nature, Process, Effect and Interpretation of Legislation 13e

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