Recall from chapter 1 that the Court’s treatment of precedent takes two broad forms, positive interpretation and negative interpretation. First, the Court can interpret a precedent positively by relying on it as legal authority and thus broaden its reach or at least reiterate its continuing legal relevance. When doing so, for example, the Court can indicate that a precedent is controlling or de...

A set of ten rules is proposed for dealing with problems of ambiguity when interpreting a text of argumentative discourse. The rules are based on Grice's pragmatic rules for a collaborative conversation and on principles and maxims used to deal with ambiguity in interpreting legal and religious writings. The rules are meant to be applied to a given argument used in a given case, and to resolve ...

New Advances in Legal Translation and Interpreting Junfeng Zhao, Defeng Li Victoria Lai Cheng Lei (2023)Springer. 264pp

Abstract The changes to the Irish exclusionary rule introduced by judgment in People (DPP) v JC mark an important watershed law of evidence and legal culture more generally. case relaxed established Kenny , one strictest common world, creating exception based on ‘inadvertence’. This paper examines decision through lens culture, drawing particular Lawrence Friedman's distinction between ‘interna...

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