The court discussed how to discover the ‘pith and substance’ of the measure that Parliament had enacted.
Citations:
[1899] AC 580
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza HL 21-Jun-2004
Same Sex Partner Entitled to tenancy Succession
The protected tenant had died. His same-sex partner sought a statutory inheritance of the tenancy.
Held: His appeal succeeded. The Fitzpatrick case referred to the position before the 1998 Act: ‘Discriminatory law undermines the rule of law . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Litigation Practice
Updated: 14 September 2022; Ref: scu.198544
