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To what extent can words mean what a judge wants them to mean?
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Legal Reasoning 2002-05-07 "When I use a word", Humpty Dumpty said to Alice in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, "It means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less" To what extent can words mean what a judge wants them to mean? The above statement has been used to illustrate the concept of interpretation. Different people to reach an extremely different conclusion can interpret any same Statement. Interpretation can very, by whom it is being interpreted by, their understanding, beliefs, and feelings as an interpreters role may have an impact on the approach they use to interpret Statutes. An example of a case illustrating this is the Craig/Bentley case 19521 in which Bentley yells out to Craig who is Brandishing a gun at a policemen at a policeman during an attempted warehouse robbery: "Let him have it". This statement can be interpreted in two ways depending on who is interpreting it....
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