Pepper (Inspector of Taxes) v Hart
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Pepper (Inspector of Taxes) v Hart
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Pepper v Hart [1992] UKHL 3, is a landmark decision of the House of Lords on the use of legislative history in statutory interpretation. The court established the principle that when primary legislation is ambiguous then, in certain circumstances, the court may refer to statements made in the House of Commons or House of Lords in an attempt to interpret the meaning of the legislation. Before this ruling, such an action would have been seen as a breach of parliamentary privilege. John Hart and ni
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Leading English case on statutory interpretation
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