Justice Lauwers employed
a purposive analysis, relying on the Court of Appeal's holding in Bapoo v. Co-operators general insurance, which instructs courts to use a modern approach that looks at a legislative provision in its total context.
... A textual, contextual and
purposive analysis of subsection 66 (4) supports the view that this subsection seeks to remedy losses such as the decline in purchasing power of benefits paid with great tardiness, as has occurred in this case.
In this regard, I note the elimination of the presumption of constitutionality, the metaphor of the living tree, and as Justice David Stratas identified last year in his keynote address, the court's repeated use of the purposive approach to interpret and expand in different cases, substantive Charter rights that had already been the subject of
a purposive analysis.
This is a comprehensive understanding of the Rules, looking at the textual, contextual and
purposive analysis of the provision in question.
Not exact matches
Qualitative evaluations are narrative, descriptive, and interpretive, focusing on in - depth
analysis of an innovation through the use of a
purposive sample.
Our selection of districts for case
analysis was
purposive; we sought to increase the variability of district characteristics, and we drew upon the research team «s knowledge of the sites.
We selected a
purposive sample of site - visit schools for this
analysis.
The
purposive values test is incorporated into the Irwin Toy
analysis, and any sufficient connection to the creator's preferences largely become irrelevant.
While they acknowledged that the legislation ought to be given a broad and liberal interpretation, the justices held that «a liberal and
purposive interpretation can not supplant a textual and contextual
analysis simply in order to give effect to a policy decision different from the one made by Parliament.»