NOTES Interpretation of Statutes IOS201-6 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1. Definition Statutory interpretation as a subject of study is the body of rules and principles used to construct and justify the meaning of legislative provisions to be applied in practical situations. 1.2. Why can statutes not be interpreted in a mechanical or rule-like fashion? Many rules of interpretation overlap and cannot be neatly compartmentalised as: the circumstances and sets of facts will differ from case to case
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Exam Answers Question 1 Statutory Interpretations is the process by which Judges interpret Acts of Parliament in cases.75% of cases heard by the Horse Of Lords are concerned with Statutory Interpretation .When it is called upon to deal with a problem of interpretation ‚the Court does two things here. Translation is what happens first‚ here they decide what the word means‚ then secondly they apply the correct meaning to the situation in question and decide on the results (in terms of the intention
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Reasons for Shifting Courses of College Students STUDENTS’ SHIFTING OF COURSES:ITS IMPLICATION ON CAREER GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING IN THE COLLEGEOF EDUCATION GRACE H. PASAQUIAN COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Most colleges and universities are faced with challenge and stability during college in time with the student’s selection of course. This phenomenon seems global throughout the educational institution in the tertiary. Students flock to courses which seemingly interest
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Classical conditioning and instrumental conditioning Classical conditioning is about pairing a stimulus with another stimulus that cause a natural reaction. As a good example of Pavlov’s dog meat powder experiment‚ the dog meat powder and dog salivating is unconditional reponse which naturally occurred. However‚ if a dog was given a meat powder after the bell ring‚ eventually the dog will salivate whenever bell rings even if there are no meat powder‚ meaning‚ by pairing the two stimulus the desired
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the law that governs the society has to evolve as a result. This is to ensure that justice is served with effectiveness and fairness. Henceforth‚ judges play an important role towards this development of the legal system to a certain extent‚ through their decisions made within the parameters of certain doctrines that provide consistency and guidance (Lewis‚ 2012). Two such doctrines are the judicial precedent and the statutory interpretation. The judicial precedent is a major source of law that
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men age twenty or older‚” (Hsu). This fact partially falls under the category of statutory rape. Depending on the state and its law about statutory rape‚ at a certain teen year it is allowed for a teenager to be sexually active with any age above their own. However‚ there is a possibility for a teen to be able to be sexually active with someone older with parental consent‚ but that also has an age limit to it. Statutory rape has been discussed for several years because of all the different types of
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actions as effectively as possible. There are two types of public services they are statutory and non-statutory services. The difference between a statutory and a non-statutory service is that a statutory service is paid by tax payers‚ funded by the government and is set up by the law. They are usually uniformed and highly professional an example would be the Emergency Services and the Armed Forces. A non-statutory service is a service that doesn’t receive a lot of government funding so they are paid
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STATUTORY INTERPRETATION TOPICS: Preliminaries Rules and approaches Aids to interpretation Impact of EU and HRA PRELIMINARIES Statutory interpretation is the way by which the parts of a statute are interpreted in order to understand what Parliament might have intended by passing that particular statute. Statutes are not user friendly. They are written in technical form and not too easy to understand (ambiguity). The words used in statues may have different meanings which indicate
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contents Headings Page No. introduction……………………………….…………………………………. 2 main anaysis CONDITIONS UNDER TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 AND FAIR TRADING ACT 1999……………………………………………..………………. 3 STATUTORY IMPLIED TERMS‚ WHEN THEY APPLY AND CONSEQUENCES OF BREACHING THE IMPLIED TERMS……...…… 5 IMPLIED UNDERTAKINGS AS TO TITLE ……………………………. 5 Rights to sell the goods ……………………………………..…………… 6 Quiet Possession of the goods …………………………………………. 7 Freedom from encumbrances
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STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS 1. Statutory Construction - is the art or process of discovering and expounding meaning and intention of the authors of the law‚ where that intention is rendered doubtful by reason of the ambiguity in its language or of the fact that the given case is not explicitly provided for in the law - is the drawing of warranted conclusions respecting subjects that lie beyond the direct expression of the text‚ conclusions which are in the spirit‚ though not
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