Statutory Interpretation in UK Law
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R (on the application of O (a minor, by her litigation friend AO)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... State, with the consent of the Treasury, to make regulations by statutory instrument, subject to annulment by resolution of either House of ... The question raised in this appeal is one of statutory interpretation. The question in short is whether Parliament has authorised in primary ... ...
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R v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and Another, ex parte. Spath Holme Ltd
... ... A further account of the statutory history and certain decisions of the courts is given by the Court of ... resolved in favour of the narrower rather than the broader interpretation. He placed reliance on McKiernon v. Secretary of State for Social ... ...
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R (Jackson) v Attorney General
... ... of enactment were as for the Hunting Act, save that the only statutory reference was to the 1911 Act. Its substantial effect was to reduce the ... be read according to established principles of statutory interpretation. (3) Among these is the principle that powers ... ...
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Pepper (Inspector of Taxes) v Hart
... ... of the proceedings in this appeal and his account of the statutory provisions by reference to which it falls to be decided ... 2 A fact ... submission reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to interpretation of a statutory provision should be allowed only with leave of the court ... ...
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Re McGuckian (No 1)
... ... to tax under section 478 must succeed unless there is some other statutory provision which demonstrates that section 478 does not apply. It was the ... Lords decisions, amounted to "an extreme form of statutory interpretation." It was implicit in this argument that the foundation of the principle is ... ...
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R (Miller and Another) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union; Re McCord's application
... ... 4 to 12, and incorporated Schedules 3 and 4, set out a number of statutory repeals and amendments which were needed to enable UK domestic law to ... longer have any binding role in relation to their scope or interpretation. Other rights, arising under EU Regulations or directly under the EU ... ...
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AXA General Insurance Company Ltd v Lord Advocate
... ... on such day as the Scottish Ministers may, by order made by statutory instrument, appoint. (2) Sections 1 and 2 are to be treated for ... " as beneficiaries of the 2009 Act would be to give an interpretation to the rule that went beyond matters of procedure and moved into the field ... ...
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R v Barnet London Borough Council, ex parte Nilish Shah
... ... the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 and finally introducing a statutory code of immigration control, the Immigration Act 1971. Yet the Education ... 18 The first question, being one of statutory interpretation, is legal in character; and it is related to an applicant's right. The ... ...
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Farrell v Alexander
... ... "in addition to rent" which appear in section 85 and in the interpretation section 92 and which on any view are used with some surplusage, have the ... as to payments asked or received as a condition of giving up statutory tenancies (section 13), payments required as consideration for changes by ... ...
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Matthew v Trinidad and Tobago
... ... death penalty will not be consistent with a current interpretation of sections 4 and 5, it is prevented by section 6(1) from being ... 68(2) of the Interpretation Act: "Where in any Act or statutory instrument provision is made for any minimum penalty or fine, or for any ... ...
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