7.2 Recent Trends on Interpretation of Statutes

1. The purposive-and-liberal dominance: the Supreme Court's modern style — the rights' generous reading, the purposive constitutional interpretation (the progressive school of U5.1.4), the proportionality's arrival (the limitations' structured review). 2. The constitutionalisation: the interpretation's constitutional frame — the rights-compatible reading (the presumption of U6.2 working with the harmonious method), the directive principles' interpretive aid (U5.2's faces). 3. The treaty-consistent reading: the Treaty Act 2047's primacy plus the U6.5 presumption — the Nepali courts' growing treaty consultation (the human rights instruments' citation culture — Human Rights Law's cases as the specimens). 4. The precedential consolidation: the binding-precedent discipline (Art 128's world) and the bench's structure — the Constitutional Bench's centralised interpretation of the constitutional questions. 5. The codification era's questions: the 2074 Codes' fresh texts — the old Muluki Ain case law's fate (the codifying construction of U3.2.4: the new codes' independence vs the doctrine's continuity), the transitional interpretive era the Nepali courts are navigating. 6. The prescribed cases' window (the syllabus's own selection — the interpretive journey across the decades; each cited verbatim with the honest notes): Dr. K.I. Singh v. Government of Nepal (D.No. 279, NKP 2022 B.S.) — the early-republic era's specimen (the young Supreme Court's interpretive craft in the K.I. Singh matter — the 1950s politician's own case); Man Bahadur Limbu v. Gajlal Limbu (D.No. 814,…