We must have a massive knowledge of not only what the law says but how to practically use that law and interpret it.
What the five Law Lords in the current majority have done is to interpret international law, and the British statutes implementing it, as narrowly as possible, but to interpret the Extradition Act so adventurously that even British lawyers who specialise in fighting extradition cases are amazed.
Under English law, an attempt to exclude the courts from their effort to interpret the law is considered to be against public policy.
Are you comfortable with how any President in the future might interpret that law?
To some extent, the court was struggling to interpret a law whose language is hopelessly vague.
But critics could argue, for example, that allowing the president to interpret international law is itself a violation of international law.
The Taliban, however, insists that it alone has the authority to interpret the law and so far it has made no clear ruling on heroin.
His view that judges should interpret the law is a challenge to the principle of strict obedience to its letter that prevailed during the dictatorship.
Analysts say the problem that firms such as HSBC are facing in expanding their Islamic finance business is that different Muslim countries interpret Islamic law differently.
That experience, says a lawyer who knows Miers well, should lead her to interpret the law strictly without bending it to fit larger notions of social equity.
The parties interpret the law to mean they can spend soft money on "issue advocacy" ads, which legally aren't for the purpose of influencing the presidential race.
Decisions regarding VISA and Mastercard transactions are mostly in the hands of the large acquiring processors which tend to interpret the law from the federal perspective rather than the state perspective.
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It is my hope that judges everywhere will continue to do this because...within the American legal system we're commanded to interpret our law in the best way we can, and that means looking to what other, anyone has said to see if it has persuasive value.
In addition, upon the enactment of the Basic Law, the CFA must have power to interpret at least those provisions of the Basic Law which fall within the limits of autonomy of the SAR.
Some northern Texas school districts are scrambling to interpret a state law that requires public schools to incorporate Bible literacy into the curriculum.
The court explained that because corporate liability is not a discernible norm of customary international law, courts should not interpret the ATS as having authorized suits against corporations.
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As a matter of principle, the SC can only interpret the Basic Law and reverse the CFA's interpretation if it is inconsistent with the true legislative intent, not as a matter of expediency.
Under the common law, the ultimate power to interpret is vested in the judiciary.
He argued that under a system based on constitutional separation of powers, the person who promulgates a law should not be allowed to interpret it as well.
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Second is a recognition of the limits of the judicial role, an understanding that a judge's job is to interpret, not make law, to approach decisions without any particular ideology or agenda, but rather a commitment to impartial justice, a respect for precedent, and a determination to faithfully apply the law to the facts at hand.
The power of the CFA in a common-law system must include a power to finally interpret all laws in Hong Kong.
NPC's standing committee could interpret any part of the Basic Law.
Too often, he complains, the court's judges, using techniques of a now antiquated common law tradition, have made new law, when their proper role is to interpret the constitution.
The law on disqualification of judges is based in a statute and the cases that interpret it.
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