Following the 1969 Law Commission report The Interpretation of Statutes, British courts began to use a more purposive approach, which directed that when interpreting a statute they should examine the purpose behind it, rather than simply using the text of the statute itself.
Parole boards and sentencing commissions must re-examine the purpose, intent and effects of life sentences, and governors should start reviewing cases for executive clemency.
She says it is a serious problem that most taxpayer-funded work in the arts "is really done by and for white, solvent, educated people – you've got to examine the purpose of public subsidy".
By J. Geraghty and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, February 22 , 1958P. 26 Talk story about Colonel & Mrs. William F. Friedman who have written a book entitled "The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined," the purpose of which was to discover whether or not a cipher had been used to convey the name of an author other than Shakespeare.
The aim of this paper is to examine the purpose and growth of the development of general, advanced and specialist competency standards in nursing and midwifery in Australia.
Control systems can quickly escalate into unmanageable complexity, and the initial approach to the design of a suitable control system should examine the purpose of each item, and the effect on others, to eliminate those that are not essential.
Well, many things, but the main one is a failure to closely examine the purpose for strategy development.
We will examine the purpose and components of the indicators as well as the reported measurement properties if available/applicable (eg, sensitivity and specificity).
Patterns of use, which is the outcome variable, was evaluated by examining the purpose of pill use, and whether or not women had received doctor's consultation or prescription before using the pill.
We will examine the purpose and components of the tools from each study as well as the reported measurement properties (eg, sensitivity/specificity of risk stratification tools) and reported processes (eg, hospital length of stay) and outcomes (eg, readmission to ICU) of care.
