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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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 (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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MacNiven v Westmoreland Investments Ltd
... ... this artificial loss a loss within the meaning of the relevant statutory provision ? Thus, in Ramsay the taxpayer company sought to create an ... of the established purposive approach to the interpretation of statutes. When searching for the meaning with which Parliament has used ... ...
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Marley v Rawlings and another
... ... courts haves had to consider the validity of a will and the interpretation of a will, and a few cases where rectification of a will has been ... So far as validity is concerned, the centrally important statutory provision, both in general terms and for present purposes, is section 9 of ... ...
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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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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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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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