Judicial Precedent and Statutory Interpretation Rules

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Clues

  • Allows the court to enforce what the statute was originally intended to achieve rather than what the wording literally states. (8, 4)
  • Past decisions of judges create law for future judges to follow (8, 9)
  • Sometimes the literal meaning of the law will lead to an absurd result and so the golden rule allows judges to avoid this. (6, 4)
  • The law is taken at face value and applied literally. This causes issues such as interpreting words such as supply in drug cases differently. (7, 4)

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