{"id":255,"date":"2005-12-10T07:20:21","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T07:20:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-12-10T07:20:21","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T07:20:21","slug":"statutory-interpretation-words-given-their-ordinary-meaning-intrinsic-aids-other-sections-of-the-same-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Statutory interpretation \u2013 words given their ordinary meaning \u2013 intrinsic aids \u2013 other sections of the same legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Deep Vein Thrombosis and Air Travel Group Litigation [2005] HL<\/strong> <br \/>D the airline companies. The claimants suffered the effects of deep vein thrombosis which occurred during otherwise uneventful long flights. The only issue was whether the illness amounted to an &#8220;accident&#8221; under the <strong>Warsaw Convention 1929<\/strong>; if it did then those effected would be entitled to compensation. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Held<\/strong>: The language of the Convention itself must always be the starting point. The &#8220;accident&#8221; which causes the injury must be something other than the injury itself. The word &#8220;accident&#8221; had to be contrasted with the word &#8220;occurrence&#8221; found in other sections of the treaty. <\/p>\n<p><strong>C lost<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep Vein Thrombosis and Air Travel Group Litigation [2005] HL D the airline companies. The claimants suffered the effects of deep vein thrombosis which occurred during otherwise uneventful long flights. The only issue was whether the illness amounted to an &#8220;accident&#8221; under the Warsaw Convention 1929; if it did then those effected would be entitled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}