Many statutes are passed by parliament each year. The meaning of the law in these statutes should be clear and explicit but this is not always achieved. This is because laws must be drafted in general terms and must deal with both present and future situations. Often, a law which was drafted with one particular situation in mind will eventually be applied to quite different situations. Legislation is drawn up by draftsmen, and a draftsman’s capacity to anticipate the future is limited. He may not
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What is Statutory Interpretations? Statutory Interpretations is the process by which Judges interpret Acts of Parliament. 75% of cases heard by the House of Lords are concerned with statutory interpretation. Statutory Interpretation is the process of reading and applying statutory laws, and judges trying to find out the intention of parliament when passing the law. Sometimes the words of a statute have a plain and straightforward meaning. But in most cases, there is some ambiguity (can be interpreted
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wound as these words implied an instrument had to be used. Therefore the defendant's conviction was quashed. The golden rule is an exception to the literal rule and will be used where the literal should be used first, but if it results in absurdity, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified, so as to avoid absurdity and inconsistency, but no further. So, The Golden Rule is a modification of The Literal Rule to be used to avoid an absurd outcome. Re Sigsworth (1935) concerned
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Genetically Modified foods - Evils or Friends Genetically Modified Foods (or GM foods) are produced from organisms in which specific changes are introduced into their DNA through the methods of genetic engineering. Genetically Modified crops are available commercially since 1994. Majority of the gene modification of foods have primarily focused on cash crops which are in high demand such as soybean, corn, canola, and cotton seed oil. These crops have been engineered for resistance to pathogens
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GEORGE AND PATRICIA SLAMA foot note 29 George Slama, living in eastern Czechoslovakia, was not conscripted into the German army because he had been trained as a fruit-growing expert, and this was more valuable to the Nazis than him being a soldier. They asked him to ensure that there was an adequate supply of fruit mainly for the German army and for the elite of German society. After the war, he trained for a couple of years in the techniques of fruit growing, mainly apples, and
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Today was the day we went to go get a little hairy beast, it was a little shi tzu that we wanted to get for awhile now and he looked like he was a little baby chewbacca. It was a regular june morning getting ready to leave to get our little chewbacca. It was time to go get chewie, and my little siblings whining for no reason, and fighting. We were getting close to our destination and we stopped to get some blizzards from DQ for a little snack. We were on our way again and after a couple minutes have
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The controversy with GMFs began in the 1980’s when the first GMF patent was issued. Along with this patent sparked several contentious topics ranging from morals and ethical standards to economical and environmental appeals. An imaginary line that states whether humans should or should not insert genes from one organisms to the next in order to sate our insatiable appetite for food and growth.The fine line between human actions upon altering their food supply and acting as God is a grey area, which
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In Guns, germs and steel, the Professor Jared Diamond asserts that inequality was brought up by the development of crops like wheat and barley. As a fact, agriculture gave a reliable source of food and triggered specialization. Firstly, the domestication of wheat and barley gave a huge head start to the Middle East because it supplied them with a sufficiency of nutritious crops. As an illustration, the archaeologist, Ian Kuijt mentions “they interrupted the normal environmental cycle and started
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He worked on book adaptations to screen with The Golden Compass and New Moon, making A Better Life something new in his work. His change in movie styles can contributed to Weitz saying, "he wanted to direct A Better Life because he wanted to get in touch with heritage." Weitz wanting to connect to his
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Insurance Introduction Manzana Insurance was started in 1902, and by 1953 had become the second-largest home and commercial property insurer in California. However, since the 1970's Manzana has been facing troubles from intense competition from the Golden Gate Casualty, as well as problems from an inefficient operating procedure leading to late issuance of policies, customer dissatisfaction, and defection of agents to other firms. Situational Analysis Recent complaints from agents about the turnaround
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