Rules for Statutory and Judicial Interpretation in English Legal System

LW403 ENGLISH LEGAL
SYSTEM

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Rules for statutory and judicial interpretation.............................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
United Kingdom has tertiary legal system where it is separated in three divisions one is for
England and Wales, other is for Scotland and one for Northern Ireland 1. Constitutional law of
UK includes statute law that is developed by State one case law, other it involves the judicial
precedent which refers to legal decisions which can be used as guide for the rules to be
implemented for cases. Following report will cover the evaluation of law with examples that
drawn from cases, it will also discuss the statutory and judicial interpretation. Further report will
also cover as what extent judges follows such rules.
MAIN BODY
Rules for statutory and judicial interpretation
UK legal system reflects its historical origins; they have unwritten constitution where there
is no such single document is found that consists of rights for an individual citizen. UK
constitution encompasses different sources some of them are written possibly called as statutes
and others that are unwritten like constitutional conventions. Constitution is unitary where
parliament in west minister consider as the supreme law developing authority. Since year 1999
devolution has given the power from Westminster parliament to the assemblies of Cardiff
present in Wales, and to Scottish parliament in Edinburg. UK parliament is made up of three
parts that is House of commons, House of lords and monarch, implementation and formation of
any law must require to approved by all three houses. It is found that in ordinary cases, judiciary
needs to found any true intention about legislature by laws that is present in statute, laws can
easily be found if they are searched by natural and grammatical meaning of the word. Some of
the statutory and judicial interpretation rules are as follows:
A Literal rule: This rule generally concerns with the fact as what law is actually conveying, it
does not say what law actually means. It associates with real meaning of the word. Here judges
generally not come with words and interpret on the basis of the case requirement. When the
language written is too simple and words only have single meaning then this time judges uses the
literal rules for interpretation. For an example case of Fisher V bell, this case can help in
1 Hawkins, Derek. "Statutory Interpretation WEAJA Fee Award." Wisconsin Law
Journal (2019).