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1 Retroactivity and the Common Law Ben Juratowitch HART- PUBLISHING OXFORD AND PORTLAND, OREGON 2008
2 CONTENTS Foreword Acknowledgements Table of Cases Table of Legislation and International Instruments v vii xiii xxv Introduction 1 1 Concepts, Labels and Limitations 5 A Introduction 5 B Retroactivity 6 C Retrospectivity 9 D Confusing Usage 12 E Problematic Usage 13 1 Waldron on Criminal Sentencing 13 2 Fuller on Tax Liability 16 F The Scope of this Book 17 G Illustrations of Conceptual Distinctions 17 1 Cases Relating to Contractual Rights 18 2 Cases Relating to Personal Status 21 H Conclusion 25 2 Historical Review 27 A Introduction 27 B General History and Statutory Construction 27 C Adjudicative Retroactivity 35 D Conclusion 42 3 Rationales for a General Presumption Against Retroactivity 43 A Introduction 43 B Certainty 44 1 The Meaning of Certainty 44 2 Certainty and Reliance 44 (a) The Case for Actual Reliance 44 (b) Evaluation of the Role of Actual Reliance 45 (c) Certainty and the Ability to Rely on the Law 47 3 Certainty and Autonomy 48
3 x Contents C Negative Liberty 50 1 Negative Liberty Generally 50 2 Deprivation of Security Relating to Past Events 50 3 Removal of an Actual Freedom 51 4 Negative Liberty and Criminal Law 52 (a) Nullum Crimen Sine Lege Antea Exstanti 52 (b) Nulla Poena Sine Lege Antea Exstanti 52 D Fair Warning 57 E Defeasibility 60 1 Introduction to Defeasibility 60 2 A General Principle of Fairness 61 3 Where Uncertainty is Inevitable 62 4 The Exceptional Nature of Retroactivity 63 F Conclusion 65 4 The Presumption Against Retroactivity in Statutory Construction 67 A Introduction 67 B The Nature of the Presumption Against Retroactivity 68 C Applications of the Presumption Against Retroactivity 71 D Fairness as a Determinant of the Applicability of the Presumption 76 E A Presumption of Variable Strength? 79 F Rebuttal of the Presumption Against Retroactivity 80 1 Express Words or Necessary Intendment 80 2 Validating Statutes 81 3 Importance of Subject Matter 86 G Detailed Studies 91 1 The Intertemporal Effect of the Human Rights Act 1998 (UK) 91 (a) Was Retroactivity in Issue? 91 (b) Treatment of the Presumption Against Retroactivity 93 (c) Applicability of the Presumption Against Retroactivity 94 (d) Fairness and a Presumption of Variable Strength 96 (e) Statutory Language Retroactive Sentencing 102 (a) Article 7 of the ECHR and the Common Law Presumption Against Retroactivity 102 (b) The Common Law Presumption Against Retroactive Sentencing 112 (c) Retroactive Changes in Favour of the Defendant 115 H Conclusion Adjudicative Retroactivity 119 A Introductory Matters What is Adjudicative Retroactivity? The Declaratory Theory The Scope of this Chapter 121
4 Contents xi B The Doctrine Of Precedent and Judicial Attachment to Existing Principle in Novel Cases 125 C The Marital Rape Cases Outline of the Facts, Decisions and Issues Foreseeability of Legal Change Heinous Conduct Changed Status of Women An Illogical Immunity Conclusions on the Marital Rape Cases 137 D Restitution of Money Paid under a Mistake of Law The Facts and Issues in Kleinwort Benson v Lincoln County Council Reasons for Retroactivity 142 E Private Law The Creation of New Law without Overruling Prior Authority 144 (a) Existing Authorities in Disarray Making a Degree of Retroactivity Inevitable 144 (b) Ability to Rely on the Law not in Issue 145 (c) Gradual Development of New Law 146 (d) Moral Obloquy 150 (e) Use of Obiter Dicta to Signal a Change in the Law The Creation ofnew Law by Overruling a Prior Authority 153 (a) Ability to Rely on the Law not in Issue 153 (b) Prior Authority Wrong in Principle 154 (c) Response to Changed Legal Circumstances 159 (d) Response to Changed Factual Circumstances 161 (e) Absence of Effect on Litigants before the Court 163 (f) Refusal to Overrule a Decision because of Potential Retroactive Effects Overruling a Prior Judicial Interpretation of a Statute Conclusions on Private Law 171 F Public Law The Creation of New Law without Overruling Prior Authority The Creation of New Law by Overruling Prior Authority 175 (a) Judicial Review of Questions of Law 175 (b) Judicial Review of Questions of Fact Overruling a Prior Judicial Interpretation of a Statute Conclusions on Public Law 182 G Criminal Law The Creation of New Law without Overruling Prior Authority 184 (a) Judicial Response to New Factual Circumstances 184 (b) Perceived Immorality The Creation of New Law by Overruling Prior Authority 189 (a) Prior Authority Wrong in Principle 189 (b) Retroactivity in Favour of a Defendant 192
5 xii Contents 3 Overruling a Prior Judicial Interpretation of a Statute Conclusions on Criminal Law 196 H Overruling and the Age of a Decision Prospective Overruling 199 A What is Prospective Overruling? 199 B The Status Quo England Australia New Zealand Canada 205 C Evaluation of Prospective Overruling Inconsistency with the Proper Scope of the Judicial Function in Common Law Systems Arbitrariness Prospective Overrruling of Decisions about Statutory and Constitutional Construction 214 D Conclusion Conclusions 219 A Foundations 219 B Comparison of Cases of Statutory and Adjudicative Retroactivity 220 C Approaching Rebuttal of the Presumption 223 D Legislative and Judicial Processes 224 E Final Observations 225 Bibliography 227 Index 233
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