“…Querying the weight to be attached to Practice Direction 47, Mr Browne cited U v Liverpool City Council [2005] EWCA Civ 475, [2005] 1 WLR 2657, An NHS Trust v Y [2018] UKSC 46, [2019] AC 978 and In re NY (A Child) [2019] UKSC 49, [2020] AC 665. In U v Liverpool City Council, Brooke LJ, giving the judg…”
“…[2002] 1 WLR 997 at paragraph 11, “at best a weak aid to the interpretation of the rules themselves”. In U v Liverpool City Council [2005] EWCA Civ 475, [2005] 1 WLR 2657, Brooke LJ, giving the judgment of the Court, noted at paragraph 48 that a Practice Direction “has no legislative force” and went on:…”