Federal Steam Navigation Co Ltd v Department of Trade and Industry: HL 1974

The normal meaning of the word ‘or’ is disjunctive, although in a suitable context it can be read as equivalent to ‘and’, or as expressing a non-exclusionary alternative equivalent to ‘and/or’

Judges:

Lord Reid, Lord Wilberforse

Citations:

[1974] 1 WLR 505, [1974] 2 All ER 97

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedShahid v Scottish Ministers (Scotland) SC 14-Oct-2015
The appellant convicted of a racially-aggravated vicious murder. Since conviction he had spent almost five years in segregation from other prisoners. The appellant now alleged that some very substantial periods of segregation had been in breach of . .
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Litigation Practice

Updated: 09 May 2022; Ref: scu.591351