Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] to [noun] law " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the view of the European Court , the courts of the member states should give supremacy to community law ( Costa v. E.N.E.L. 1964 ) . |
| 2 | For the reverse engineering provisions to have any real effect , the word " substantial " would have to be interpreted in a quantitative sense which would run counter to copyright law . |
| 3 | ( c ) by arguing that any subsequent inconsistent legislation was inadvertent , that the Westminster Parliament could not have intended to legislate in a manner conflicting with community obligations and that the " bounden duty of the courts would then be to give effect to community law " Macarthys v. Smith ( C.A. , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | The focus of attention is upon whether the national law could be interpreted so as to give effect to Community law obligations . |
| 5 | Moreover , given the open-ended nature of this phrase and the already existing divergence of opinion among the national courts as to how those words are to be interpreted , this would seem to be a classic situation for the UK courts to give effect to Community law by interpretation of the national law so as to achieve congruence between the national and the Community norms . |
| 6 | Section 2(4) could therefore be said to give supremacy to community law . |
| 7 | Any willingness on the part of our courts to accord supremacy to community law is thus limited by two factors : ( a ) an unwillingness to hold that Parliament has limited its power to pass legislation conflicting with existing obligations under community law ; ( b ) lack of precedent for challenges to the validity of an Act of Parliament . |