Bristow J said: ‘Where the legal right or obligation with which you are concerned is not a common law right or obligation but is created by statute, what the statute says, and nothing else, is the law. The judges cannot add to or subtract from the law as you find it expressed in the statute, the instrument by which the will of the people through the ordinary constitutional method of Parliamentary process becomes the law. If what the statute says is intelligible and unambiguous it is for the judges to apply it, not to refine it or add to it frills of their own.’
Judges:
Bristow J
Citations:
[1978] ICR 424
Cited by:
Cited – Haddon v Van Den Bergh Foods Ltd EAT 10-Nov-1999
An employee did not return to work after a presentation to him of a good service award, because he had drunk alcohol. A new policy required staff not to return to work after consuming alcohol, but had also said that alcohol would not be provided. . .
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Employment, Constitutional
Updated: 02 May 2022; Ref: scu.374402