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Statutory Instruments

How a statute should be, ideally?

 Certainty and clarity


 Comprehensibility and knowledgeability
 C
 D
 E

Problem with language

 Ambiguity
 Broad terms
 Changes
 Drafting error
 Ellipsis

Whitely v chappell [1868]

London and north eastern railway v Berriman [1946]

R v Maginnis [1987]

AC possession of drug
MC intention to supply

Fisher v bell
Flick knife with price tag (offensive weapon act) if it offers to sell

R v Allen [1872]

Re Sigsworth [1935]

Mischief Rule

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