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Statutory Interpretation and the Human Rights Act 1998 Legislation is to be interpreted in such a way as to be compatible in 'so far as it is possible to do so.' The modern approach for statutory interpretation expects statutory provisions to be interpreted in their context, with the notion of context construed widely. It is accepted that judges may read in words necessarily implied and have a limited power to add to, alter or ignore statutory words in order to prevent a provision from being unintelligible or absurd or totally unreasonable, unworkable or totally irreconcilable with the rest of the statute. This approach also includes the power to read statutory provisions as qualified by broad principles that reflect fundamental values of the common law. Nevertheless, it has been made clear that the enactment of section 3(1) does involve the addition of an extra dimension to the ordinary methods of interpretation: * R v...

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