- Ensuring legal justice is delivered - Citizens being treated equally and the law being applied to everyone in the same way
- Interpreting the meanings of laws
- Deciding how laws should be applied depending on the circumstance. When this happens, judicial precent takes place - similar cases will be dealt with in the same way
- Deciding what the common law is when there isn't a statute law or a common law. Judicial precedent applies again
- Reviewing cases. Usually happens when someone feels they haven't been treated fairly by government or a government agency
- Conducting puclic inquiries
- Deciding on sentencing in criminal cases
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