The Letter of the Law

Steve From Village Hampden has a post about EU Law

"a person who relies upon the literal meaning of a Community law provision to claim a right that runs counter to its purposes does not deserve to have that right upheld. In such circumstances, the legal provision at issue must be interpreted, contrary to its literal meaning, as actually not conferring the right."

Basically, the law means whatever they want it to. Comforting thought isn’t it.