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Statutory Reform in Other Jurisdictions

Abstract This chapter looks at some of the main statutory exceptions to the privity rule in common law jurisdictions outside of England. It considers legislation in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Singapore.
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'Statutory Nondelegation': Another Misguided Idea in Administrative Procedure Reform

SSRN Electronic Journal, 1999
Statutory nondelegation is an administrative procedure reform mechanism that constrains agency authority to promulgate regulations, with the intention of enhancing the legislative accountability of agency rulemaking. For example, the Bumpers Amendment to the federal APA, proposed more than two decades ago, would have relied on courts to aggressively ...
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Statutory reform of aspects of construction law in Australia

Construction Management and Economics, 1997
Construction contract law in the common law world is largely free of direct statutory intervention. The agenda of calls within the United Kingdom to remedy major defects in construction law is used as a framework in a series of comparisons with recent legislation and practice in Australia, notably in Victoria where a holistic approach to the industry's
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Statutory Sentencing Reform in Israel: Exploring the Sentencing Law of 2012

Israel Law Review, 2013
In 2012 the Knesset approved a new sentencing law. Israel thus became the latest jurisdiction to introduce statutory directions for courts to follow in sentencing. The approach of the United States to structuring judicial discretion often entails the use of a sentencing grid with presumptive sentencing ranges.
Julian V Roberts, Oren Gazal-Ayal
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Reforming the statutory inquiry warning letter process

Many leading inquiry chairs, practitioners, and other public inquiry experts have repeatedly called for the mandatory warning letter process for statutory public inquiries to be revoked, and replaced with a flexible approach, arguing that it causes unnecessary delays and adds millions of pounds to the cost of UK statutory inquiries.
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Commonwealth Statutory Reforms of Judicial Review of Administrative Action: Caribbean Perspectives

International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 1983
THE Parliament of Barbados in the Commonwealth Caribbean recently passed in quick succession the Administrative Justice Act 1980,' the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1980,2 and the Administrative Appeal Tribunal Act 1981;3 all, especially the first, designed to reform judicial review of administrative action.
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Statutory Reform and the Incompetent Elderly

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 1994
June Starr, Lawrence Friedman
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Statutory reform of the death certification process in England and Wales

British Journal of Nursing
Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, considers the reforms to the death certification process and discusses the statutory examination of all deaths not referred to the coroner by a medical examiner
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Challenging Statutory Pensions Reforms in an Aging Europe: Adequacy Versus Sustainability

2012
This chapter discusses the development of statutory first pillar pensions’ reforms within the fragmented European social policy regime. It provides a doctrinal analysis concerning the institutional and operational status of pension reforms, discussing the performance of national systems before and during the economic crisis.
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The role of comparative law in shaping corporate statutory reforms

2014
This Essay discusses how comparative law played and plays a role in the statutory development of corporate laws. The influence of laws of other systems on the development of statutory law is common, explicit, and represents a tradition that accompanied legal reforms since the very beginning of the development of legislation.
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