First, he turned to the Mischief Rule . What was the mischief the Act sought to remedy? The 1958 parliamentary debates (which G.P. Singh always reminded him to check) showed it was the din of ticking, chiming, and alarm bells disrupting voters' concentration. A broken watch created no mischief.
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Singh provides a masterful analysis of the two branches of the golden rule: First, he turned to the Mischief Rule
Singh begins with the bedrock: The words of a statute must first be understood in their natural, ordinary, grammatical meaning. He quotes the famous maxim: "A verbis legis non est recedendum" (From the words of the law, there must be no departure). including its operation