iNOW! has business line input these days, which is already making the product better – thanks everyone. As new High Court judge Michelle Gordon and ex-High Court judge Ken Hayne put it, ‘the proper construction and application of statutes always has been, but now more than ever is, an essential legal skill’ – we agree. The theme we want to leave you with this month comes from a famous American jurist – ‘Literalness may strangle meaning’1. Please enjoy!
Rebecca Smith – Tax Counsel Network
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Writer – Gordon Brysland, Producer – Michelle Janczarski. Special thanks to Jo Stewart and Jonathon Shaw.
1 Frankfurter J in Utah Junk Co v Porter [1946] USSC 81 (at [9]).