Purposive approach

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....s increasingly moved away from the purely literal approach to statutory interpretation towards the purposive approach'. Indeed, in the case of Nothman v. Barnet London Borough Council [1978] 1 WLR 220 (CA), Lord Denning makes the claim that the literal approach has been superseded by the purposive approach. Lord Denning said (at p. 228) : "The literal method is now completely out of dat....