The phrase "almost statutory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is nearly or practically required by law or regulation, but not quite fully established as such.
Example: "The new regulations are almost statutory, as they align closely with existing laws and are expected to be enforced soon."
Alternatives: "nearly mandatory" or "practically required".
In its 1981 82 session, the Court examined a law's legislative history in almost every statutory case.
However, this compares to a prior situation of almost no statutory protection.
Indeed, some constitutions are almost wholly statutory, e.g., the constitution of New Zealand.
By combining annual leave days with bank holidays and weekends, it is possible to almost double your statutory leave and get 20 days off.
Everything I Never Told You starts, as now seems to be statutory for almost all crime stories on page and screen, with a sudden disappearance: in this case, teenager Lydia Lee, who is soon found dead in a lake, drowned by either suicide or murder.
In 2015, there were 44,700 social worker jobs in statutory services, divided almost two to one between children's and adult services, compared with 41,400 two years previously.
Despite having statutory access to almost all records, officers and employees of the company, auditors deny obligations to detect and report fraud.
"We note with concern that the model being proposed for Swindon is more severe in its reduction of the statutory service than almost any other we have seen," wrote Poole.
After a trial in 2007, a jury ruled against her and awarded the record companies almost $10,000 per song in statutory damages.Critics of the RIAA's campaign pointed out that if Ms Thomas-Rasset had stolen a handful of CDs from Wal-Mart, she would not have faced such severe penalties.
The minutes said: "We agreed unanimously to accept the Leveson principles – save statutory underpinning … on almost every point we accepted Lord Justice Leveson's wording".
