$10 million dispute for want of a comma

Judgments, Legislation, Punctuation

Opinions differ on the value of adding a comma to remove ambiguity in sentences such as this: “I would like to thank my parents, Mother Teresa and the pope”. The Maine Legislative Drafting Manual advised against the comma. But one law that followed the advice remained...

Was this really the worst bill ever presented?

Legislation

Was Ian Lavery MP right to criticise “its fanciful but misleading title heading up what has to be the worst-written Bill ever presented”? Would trustee boards of charities have been “frightened in case they break the law, because they do not even...

Cutting red tape

Legislation

Last April, the government announced its Red Tape Challenge. A series of themed public consultations would review 10,960 of the 21,851 statutory instruments in force, to reduce the regulatory burden on business. The first theme was Retail, and last week the Business...
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