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> Until some judge decides such a clause is legally void and must be disregarded, since otherwise it would turn the legislation into a dead letter It's not a j
by Mindwipe 4y ago
> Until some judge decides such a clause is legally void and must be disregarded, since otherwise it would turn the legislation into a dead letter
It's not a judge's job to stop legislation turning into a dead letter if it's incompetently drafted, which this is.
It's to reflect the laws and intersections of them as written.
This bill is going to go down hard in judicial review, because the people writing it and the lobbyists arguing for it are cretins.
- skissane 4y ago> It's not a judge's job to stop legislation turning into a dead letter if it's incompetently drafted, which this is. That really comes down to whether the judges given the decision want to save it or sink it. Even if the legislation is poorly drafted, if they want to save it, they’ll find a way to read it which saves Parliament’s intentions. If they want to sink it, they can exploit its poor drafting to render it toothless. I have no idea which path British judges will choose to go down. Unless you can claim some special insight into their thinking, I doubt you really do either.