BENNION ON STATUTORY INTERPRETATION ... - Francis Bennion
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<strong>BENNI<strong>ON</strong></strong> <strong>ON</strong> <strong>STATUTORY</strong> INTERPRETATI<strong>ON</strong><br />
Fifth Edition Updating Notes (Version 24, 25 Mar 2010)<br />
Page 758 Relevant Index entry: incorporation by reference:nature of<br />
Code s 259 was applied by the High Court of Fiji in Naduaniwai v Commander, Republic of<br />
Fiji Military Forces [2004] FJHC 8; Hbm0032.2004.<br />
As to Code s. 259 see also Elizabeth Court (Bournemouth) Ltd v Revenue & Customs [2007]<br />
UKSPC SPC00648. See also (in this table) the entry relating to definition, statutory, referential.<br />
Section 260. Archival drafting<br />
Pages 759-761 Relevant Index entry: incorporation by reference:archival drafting<br />
With regard to Code s 260(2), there may be a contrary intention disapplying „freezing‟ in the<br />
case of an Act applying a body of law for constitutional purposes. See eg Chamberlains v Lai<br />
[2006] NZSC 70 at [86] (application of English law in New Zealand).<br />
Division Four. Interpretative Principles Derived from Legal Policy<br />
Part XVI. Interpretative Principles (General)<br />
Section 263. Nature of legal policy<br />
Page 769 Relevant Index entry: legal policy:nature of<br />
The passage beginning „No Act can convey . . .‟ was applied by the Court of Appeal of New<br />
Zealand to relations between courts and Parliament in Huata v Prebble & Anor [2004] NZCA<br />
147 at [147].<br />
Page 769-786 Relevant Index entry: legal policy:nature of<br />
A particular principle of legal policy may form part of some branch of the law, eg the law of<br />
defamation: see Curistan v Times Newspapers Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 432, [2008] 3 All ER<br />
923, at [80].<br />
For a valuable survey of the place of legal policy (otherwise public policy) in the development<br />
of the common law see Judicial Activism: Authority, Principle and Policy in the Judicial<br />
Method by The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby, Justice of the High Court of Australia (55 th<br />
Hamlyn Lectures, Sweet & Maxwell, 2004), pp. 13-43.<br />
Pages 777-778 Relevant Index entry: champerty<br />
The law of champerty was modified by the Criminal Law Act 1967 ss 14, 15. It may still render<br />
a contract unlawful where it interferes with statutory duties, eg of a liquidator: Ruttle Plant Ltd<br />
v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (No 2) [2008] EWHC 238 (TCC),<br />
[2009] 1 All ER 448.<br />
Section 264. Law should serve the public interest<br />
Pages 792-795 Relevant Index entry: illegality:in bonam partem (in good faith) construction<br />
This was applied by the Federal Court of Australia in Mark Anthony Coleman and Director of<br />
Public Prosecutions v Kevin James Gray [1994] FCA 1585 at [38]-[40].<br />
Page 793 Relevant Index entry: illegality:fraud<br />
The term „fraud‟ may be used in the common law sense or the equitable sense of<br />
„unconscionable‟: see Giles v Rhind [2008] EWCA Civ 118, [2008] 3 All ER 697, at [44].<br />
Section 265. Law should be just and fair<br />
Page 795-799 Relevant Index entry: justice:law should serve<br />
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