(Answered) English Legal Systems: Critically discuss the extent to which modern statutory interpretation allows the courts to depart from the words of the statute.”
“In the case of Isle of Wight Council v Platt [2017] UKSC 28 the Supreme Court had to decide what was meant by the phrase ‘fails to attend regularly’ in s.444(1) Education Act 1996. Explain with reference to this and other cases how judges decide the meaning of words in legislation. Critically discuss the extent […]