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[Citation of statutes by date, session and chapter]. Byron D Cooper, "Anglo-American Legal Citation: Historical Development and Library Implications" (1982) 75 Law Library Journal 3 at 6, 7, 9, 14, 16, 17 and 28. Maurer School of Law. Edgar Stewart Fay. Discoveries in the Statute-Book. Sweet & Maxwell. 1939. pp 62 & 63.
An Act to provide for the numbering and citation of future Acts of Parliament by reference to the calendar year in which they are passed. Citation: 10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 34: Introduced by: Viscount Kilmuir (the Lord Chancellor) (Lords) Territorial extent United Kingdom: Dates; Royal assent: 19 July 1962: Commencement: 19 July 1962 [2]
Where any Act cites or refers to another Act otherwise than by its short title, the short title may, in any revised edition of the statutes printed by authority, be printed in substitution for such citation or reference. [12] Where an Act cites another Act by year, statute, session or chapter, or a section or other portion of another Act by ...
First developed by Peter Birks of the University of Oxford Faculty of Law, and now in its 4th edition (2012, Hart Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84946-367-6), [1] it has been adopted by most law schools and many legal publishers in the United Kingdom. An online supplement (developed for the third edition) is available for the citation of international ...
R v Horncastle & Others [2009] UKSC 14 was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom regarding hearsay evidence and the compatibility of UK hearsay law with the right to a fair trial under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
legislation.gov.uk, formerly known as the UK Statute Law Database, is the official Web-accessible database of the statute law of the United Kingdom, hosted by The National Archives. Established in the early 2000s, [ 1 ] it contains all primary legislation in force since 1267 and all secondary legislation since 1823; it does not include ...
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Each particular act formed a section, or a chapter, of the complete statute, so that, e.g. the Vagabonds Act 1383 became 7 Ric. 2. c. 5. Enrolment of public acts on manuscript parchment "Parliament Rolls" continued until 1850. [35] The longest Act of Parliament in the form of a scroll is an act regarding taxation passed in 1821.