| Preface | p. xiii |
| Online appendices | p. xxiv |
| Acknowledgements | p. xxv |
| Abbreviations | p. xxvii |
| Table of statutes and legislative instruments | p. xxix |
| Table of cases | p. xxxvii |
| p. 1 |
| Some food for thought | p. 3 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| The pervasiveness of norms | p. 6 |
| Normative and legal pluralism | p. 6 |
| Interpretation | p. 10 |
| Standpoint and role | p. 15 |
| Rules and relationships | p. 23 |
| Rules and reasons | p. 32 |
| Rules and results | p. 35 |
| Visual presentations of rules | p. 44 |
| Statutory interpretation and precedent: bigamy | p. 46 |
| Discretion to disobey | p. 53 |
| Human rights and freedoms | p. 58 |
| Reading, using and interpreting rules in general | p. 67 |
| Problems and mischiefs | p. 69 |
| Of rules in general | p. 80 |
| What is a rule? | p. 80 |
| Rules and values | p. 87 |
| The form and structure of a rule | p. 89 |
| Rules, exceptions and exemptions | p. 92 |
| The variety of rules | p. 94 |
| Rules and systems | p. 97 |
| Reifying rules: a note of warning | p. 102 |
| The functions of rules | p. 107 |
| Rules as techniques of social management | p. 111 |
| Two views of rules: formalism and instrumentalism | p. 114 |
| Other perspectives on rules | p. 119 |
| Interpretation and application | p. 121 |
| Interpretation: what? | p. 122 |
| Law and fact | p. 125 |
| Interpretation and application | p. 131 |
| Rule-handling | p. 132 |
| Who interprets? | p. 133 |
| Role-makers and rule-interpreters | p. 141 |
| Legalism | p. 143 |
| Leeways for interpretation and application | p. 145 |
| Imperfect rules | p. 148 |
| The factual context of rules | p. 149 |
| Intentions, reasons and purposes | p. 150 |
| The role of purposes and other reasons in interpretation | p. 158 |
| Rules and language | p. 162 |
| The open texture of rules | p. 169 |
| Reading law: reading, using and interpreting legislation and cases | p. 173 |
| Routine and problematic readings | p. 175 |
| Routine readings | p. 175 |
| Problematic readings: conditions of doubt | p. 176 |
| A diagnostic model: structure | p. 178 |
| A diagnostic model: application | p. 183 |
| Legislation | p. 193 |
| Introduction | p. 193 |
| Reading legislation: what? Why? how? | p. 195 |
| Interpreting legislation | p. 230 |
| Clarification of standpoint and role | p. 231 |
| Checking the currency of the statutory material | p. 231 |
| Identification of the conditions of doubt | p. 235 |
| The construction of arguments | p. 236 |
| Reading cases | p. 268 |
| Reading cases: what? Why? how? | p. 268 |
| Cases as precedents | p. 276 |
| Two perspectives on precedent | p. 277 |
| The doctrine of precedent | p. 279 |
| The practice of precedent | p. 295 |
| The ratio decidendi of a case | p. 304 |
| X = X = X | p. 312 |
| The European dimension | p. 315 |
| The European Union | p. 315 |
| The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms | p. 325 |
| The Human Rights Act 1998 | p. 326 |
| A note on judicial style | p. 334 |
| Rules, reasoning and interpretation | p. 336 |
| From diagnosis to argument | p. 336 |
| The structure of argument | p. 338 |
| Reasoning, rules and law | p. 343 |
| Lawyers' reasonings | p. 363 |
| Epilogue: towards a theory of legal interpretation? | p. 365 |
| Literary analogies, radical indeterminacy and noble dreams | p. 370 |
| p. 377 |
| Questions and exercises | p. 379 |
| Index | p. 391 |
| Resources on the web | |
| The following text can be found on-line at www.cambridge.org/twiningandmiers | |
| Supplementary materials and exercises on Chapter1 | |
| Normative and legal pluralism | |
| Visual presentation of rules | |
| The Reading Law Cookbook | |
| Supplementary materials and exercises on Chapters 7-10 | |
| Supplementary materials and exercises on Chapters 9 and 11 | |
| Domestic violence: a case study | |
| MPs' expenses: a case study | |
| Hunting Act 2004: a case study | |
| Suggestions for further reading | |
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