actual or possible impact of non-compliance on the parties
. The question, as posed by Lord Steyn in Regina v Soneji and another [2005] UKHL 49, [2006] 1 AC 340, is, Can Parliament fairly be taken to have intended total invalidity? As Toulson LJ put it in Dharmaraj v Hounslow London Borough Council [2011] EWCA Civ 312, [2011] PTSR 1523, Is any departure from the precise letter of the statute, however minor, to be fatal? And the assumption, as Sir Stanley observed, must surely be that Parliament intended a "sensible" result.” (emphasis by underlining added). At §54 of the same judgment, Sir James Munby P said this: “A parental order,
- Approved Judgment
- The Honourable Mr Justice Cobb:
- the person is the partner of a parent
- partners in an enduring family relationship
- any relationship
- whom the relationship is deduced
- family relationship
- actual or possible impact of non-compliance on the parties
- like an adoption order
- section 3
- hence the effect, of primary and secondary legislation