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Parliamentary Sovereignty, the Rule of Law, and the Separation of Powers: Involving Other Actors in the Legislative and Judiciary Process

Parliamentary Sovereignty, the Rule of Law, and the Separation of Powers: Involving Other Actors in the Legislative and Judiciary Process

Marianne Ojo
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781522503057|ISBN10: 1522503056|EISBN13: 9781522503064
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0305-7.ch017
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Ojo, Marianne. "Parliamentary Sovereignty, the Rule of Law, and the Separation of Powers: Involving Other Actors in the Legislative and Judiciary Process." Analyzing the Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Foreign Direct Investment, edited by Marianne Ojo, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 264-282. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0305-7.ch017

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Ojo, M. (2016). Parliamentary Sovereignty, the Rule of Law, and the Separation of Powers: Involving Other Actors in the Legislative and Judiciary Process. In M. Ojo (Ed.), Analyzing the Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Foreign Direct Investment (pp. 264-282). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0305-7.ch017

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Ojo, Marianne. "Parliamentary Sovereignty, the Rule of Law, and the Separation of Powers: Involving Other Actors in the Legislative and Judiciary Process." In Analyzing the Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Foreign Direct Investment, edited by Marianne Ojo, 264-282. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0305-7.ch017

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Abstract

This chapter is aimed at highlighting how common law has evolved over the centuries, namely through the flexibility accorded to judicial precedents, as well as through the evolutionary nature evidenced in the processes and rules applied in statutory interpretation. In addition to illustrating how informational asymmetries can be mitigated through de centralization, facilitated with courts employing the use of non-legal agents such as expert witnesses - as evidenced in the Daubert case, Pepper v Hart also illustrates how common law has evolved through the scope and permissibility of aids to statutory interpretation. Whilst financial markets and changes in the environment impact legislators, and whilst it is widely accepted that legislation constitutes the supreme form of law, the necessity for judges to introduce a certain level of flexibility will also contribute towards ensuring that legitimate expectations of involved parties are achieved - particularly where the construction of the words within a statute gives rise to considerable ambiguity. By way of reference to landmark rulings in the United States, cases such as Daubert and The Estate of Edgar A. Berg v. Commissioner, this paper also aims to illustrate the vital role increasingly assumed by non-legal actors, and why this approach should constitute a trend to be adopted in European common and civil law jurisdictions. This being the case given the failures and flaws of references to Parliamentary material and whether these should be permitted as an aid to the construction of legislation which is ambiguous or obscure, as illustrated in the case of Pepper v Hart.

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