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What is the literal rule, and how it was applied it Fisher V Bell (1961)?
Here’s what wikipedia says about Fisher v Bell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_v_Bell
Here’s Adler v George
Adler v George [1964] 2 QB 7
Under the Official Secrets Act 1920 it was an offence to obstruct a member of the armed forces ‘in the vicinity’ of a prohibited palace. The defendant was actually in the prohibited place, rather than ‘in the vicinity’ of it, at the time of obstruction.
Held:
The court applied the golden rule. It would be absurd for a person to be liable if they were near to a prohibited place and not if they were actually in it. His conviction was therefore upheld.
Enough?
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