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. Verify every citation yourself — do not rely on this page alone. Case names, numbers, dates and the decisions attributed to them have been removed from these notes or are unverified. Before you quote anything in an exam, a moot or a filing, check it…