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Comparative Statutory Interpretation in the British Isles
Author(s) -
Goodall Kay
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9337.00162
Subject(s) - statutory interpretation , statutory law , jurisprudence , interpretation (philosophy) , law , focus (optics) , political science , abstraction , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , optics
Existing studies of statutory interpretation are often of excellent quality but they have tended either to focus on legal practice to the detriment of comparative jurisprudence, or have examined legal reasoning at a level of abstraction which has made empirical study difficult. The author examines a recent development in this area and considers how it might be used to begin a project to identify any divergences in statutory interpretation among the various legal systems of the United Kingdom.