...Interpretation of Statutes : ' As a general principle retrospective operation ought not to be given to a statute unless the intention of the Legislature that it should be so construed is expressed in plain and unambiguous language ' (8th edition, 1937, p. 5). The same rule is expressed in a number...

...24)— Public Service Act, 1895 (59 Viet. No. 25). A retrospective operation ought not to be given to a statute unless the intention of the Legislature that it should be so construed is expressed in plain and unambiguous language, where the effect of such construction would be to convert an act wrongfully...

...opinion that the rule laid down by Erie, CJ, in Midland Railmy Co. v. Pye (6) ought to apply. They think that, in a case like the present, the learned Chief...Legislature that it should be so construed is expressed in plain and unambiguous language, because it manifestly shocks one's sense of justice that an act legal...

...can make is to quote these words from Lord Watson's judgment in Young v. Adams, [1898] AC 457, 476: "A retrospective operation ought not to be given to...legislature that it should be so construed is expressed in plain and unambiguous language. . . The ratio is equally apparent when a new enactment is said to convert...

...administer the law very properly guard against giving to an act of Parliament a retrospective operation unless the intention of the Legislature that it should...expressed in clear, plain, and unambiguous language." (Per Erie, CJ, Mid A'. Co. v. Pt/e, 10 CB (NS), 191.) It is to ascertain whether such is the case that...