stated that inadvertently and due
to oversight and on account of error of drafting a mistake has crept in. It
is stated that the first ... 2007. It is further
stated that inadvertently and by oversight and error of drafting
declaratory relief in the present plaint and consequential averments have
been
held to be correction of an obvious drafting error based on gender discrimination. The said amending act brings the granddaughter (daughter of a son) (married
Clauses (a) and
[* It is, according to the petitioner-company an error in
drafting as it was meant to be a proviso to sub-clause
will not be
accepted except for compelling reasons such as obvious
drafting errors. (See State of U.P. v. Dr. Vijay Anand
Maharaj , Rananjaya Singh
taxable capital gains is, at worse, an inadvertent omission or a drafting error. We are unable to be persuaded by this reasoning because
statutory language. The court must be able to correct obvious
drafting errors. In suitable cases, in discharging its
interpretative function the court will add words ... judicial
role."
This power is confined to plain cases of drafting mistakes.
The courts are ever mindful that their constitutional role in
this field
view to make a statute workable the Court has corrected obvious drafting errors. The Court in suitable cases may add or omit or substitute words
Jagadesan vs The State Of Tamil Nadu on 17 February, 2015
Author: S. Manikumar
Bench
absolute owner in possession of the suit property, is possibly a drafting
error, though naturally it cannot be ruled out that a deliberate attempt ... valorem at that stage was resorted to, by
supposedly clever drafting, including in the prayer clause.
However, since it cannot be positively determined that what
amended by Act 49 of 1981. Evidently, there had been a drafting error is using the expression "authority competent" instead of using
