Previous edition: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

As a critical, in-depth analysis of the law-making process, this book has no equal. It deals with all the stages and forms of law-making: the preparation of legislation; its passage through Parliament; statutory interpretation; the operation of the rules of precedent in judicial decision-making; the many facets of judicial law-making; the machinery of law reform. The new eighth edition covers the operation of EU law in the UK after Brexit. It also covers pre-Brexit events such as the unprecedented legislation by backbench MPs to stop a No Deal Exit from the EU and the two great Supreme Court decisions over the triggering of Brexit and the prorogation of Parliament.