In his Insurance Law column, Jonathan Dachs restates the "general, well-settled and widely known" rules for interpreting insurance policy provisions and uses case law to show how the courts are often ...

“The motion for a new trial shall be made promptly after the jury is discharged, or in the discretion of the court not later than 10 days thereafter.” Rule 59(b), SCRCP (emphasis added). Knowing the ...

Small businesses work with contracts every day. A company can have written contracts in place with its landlord, its vendors and its customers. Some of those contracts might contain vague provisions ...

However, in Ugwu v.Ararume, the Supreme Court in interpreting Section 34(2) of the Electoral Act, held that a political party shall give cogent and verifiable reasons before a candidate can be changed ...

ONE of the most familiar facts concerning our political system is the division of powers between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the government. Hardly less familiar is the ...

Companies subject to federal agency regulations sometimes face situations where measures taken to comply with such rules work one day, and then result in violations of those rules the next. Federal ...

"It is said that the law is always at least several years behind the technology. With respect to the application of a criminal statute the doctrine of lenity, among other established rules, acts as ...

While textualists want to only focus on the actual text of the statute, the purpose of statutory interpretation, in my ...

D M Harish School of Law, HSNC University, Mumbai recently hosted Haresh Jagtiani, Senior Counsel, Oasis Counsel & Advisory, to deliver a lecture on ‘Interpretation of Statutes’. In her opening ...

What remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the Commonwealth; and (4) the true reason of the remedy. This rule was again echoed by the Supreme Court in Ugu v. Tabi ...