Using your knowledge of the principles and rules used by judges to interpret statutes, discuss whether David has committed an offence in the following situation. Ensure that you include relevant case law examples in your answer.
Prohibition of Unsolicited Parties (Fictitious) Act 2010
Section 1 (1)
This Act applies to a gathering of more than a hundred people on land for a social purpose in which it is likely that alcohol will be consumed.
Section 1 (2)
Subject to Section 1 (3) it is a criminal offence to organise such a gathering without the permission of a local magistrate unless the organiser is an exempt person.
Section 1 (3)
For this purpose an exempt person means the occupier, any member of his family or his employee or agent of his.
Ray, the Manager of a builders’ merchants, asks David, a Sales Assistant at the same workplace, to keep an eye on his 5-acre smallholding while he is on holiday in Spain. David emails a few of his friends to attend his 21st birthday party in a disused barn on Ray’s farm land. Due to a technical error, the email was sent to his entire email address book. Over 600 people arrive at the party and a neighbouring farmer calls the police complaining about the noise. David is arrested for breach of the Prohibition of Unsolicited Parties (Fictitious) Act 2010.
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