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Discuss advantages and disadvantages of using the literal rule. Question ©. The literal rule was preferred for most of the nineteenth and twentieth century, where it says that the intention of parliamen
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Discuss advantages and disadvantages of using the literal rule. Question (c). The literal rule was preferred for most of the nineteenth and twentieth century, where it says that the intention of parliament is best found in the ordinary natural meaning of the words, the literal meaning must be followed, even if the result is silly. It demands that the words should be given ' plain, ordinary literal meaning...even if though this might lead to manifest absurdity,' as stated by Lord Esher in R V City of London Court (1892) where he insisted that this must be followed even if it would lead to an absurd result. This however means that the Golden rule would be considered because an absurdity in law occurs so then the Golden rule is used to 'give the words their ordinary signification,' as explained by Lord Blackburn. Since the membership of the EU, the literal rule isn't used...
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