Following your recent articles on written and spoken English, I would like to highlight a piece of gobbledegook that was provided to me on a recent Health & Safety Risk Assessment course about a legal definition of what is "reasonably practicable". It apparently is a judge's summing up of the concept of reasonably practicable in the Edwards v the National Coal Board case: "Reasonably practicable is narrower than physically possible and implies a computation between the quantum of risk on the one hand and time, trouble and expense of safeguards on the other, and if a gross disproportion can be shown, the duty is discharged."
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