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1 judgment, newest first. Open any case for its summary, the legal points it decides and how later courts have treated it.
| Date | Case | Cited by |
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| 14 Feb 1968 |
[1968] UKHL 1
A statutory discretion must be exercised consistently with the policy and objects of the enactment which confers it. Permissive language does not make…
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