The Elusive Spirit of the Law¶
McBarnet, D., & Whelan, C. (1991). The Elusive Spirit of the Law: Formalism and the Struggle for Legal Control. The Modern Law Review, 54(6), 848-873.
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Mechanisms¶
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- The most corrosive is creative compliance: structuring a decision so it technically satisfies the wording while defeating the rule's purpose
This sourceCharacterizes creative compliance as exploiting legal form to satisfy specific rules while circumventing or undermining their regulatory purpose.
- The most corrosive is creative compliance: structuring a decision so it technically satisfies the wording while defeating the rule's purpose
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