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A/S LEVEL LAW PETER LYONS ASSIGNMENT 3 When parliament makes acts of parliament it is up to the courts to enforce the laws that have been made. Most of the general public think that the way that the courts enforce these laws is by looking up these laws and giving sentences out that they think that should be given, this is not the case. In reality the court has to read the act in detail because although expert draughtsman make the acts, the acts are not always clear. The court has to use a number of ways to make the act apply to the specific case this is known as statutory interpretation. With the help of the Interpretation Act (1978) there are three main ways in which judges can use interpret the way they read the act. The rules that they use are as follows 1. The literal rule 2. The mischief rule 3. The...

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