Statutory Interpretation

3. The principle that Parliament is the supreme law-making body
4. The rule which identifies the problem or defect that an Act was designed to remedy
7. A modification of the literal rule which allows judges to avoid an absurd result
8. An unreasonable or nonsensical result that the golden rule can help judges avoid
11. The problem or gap in the law that the mischief rule seeks to identify
12. The body whose words judges are expected to follow under the literal rule
17. An advantage of the literal rule because the meaning of the law can be more predictable
18. The case where "in the vicinity of" was interpreted to include "in" the prohibited area
19. One approach to the golden rule where words have more than one possible meaning
20. The case where a son who murdered his mother was prevented from inheriting her estate
21. The case involving prostitutes soliciting from inside buildings rather than being physically in the street

1. The solution enacted by Parliament to deal with the mischief identified by the court
2. One approach to the golden rule used where the literal meaning would produce a repugnant result
5. The process of determining the meaning of legislation
6. An approach which considers what Parliament intended to achieve
9. The case involving a defendant who used his hand inside his jacket to make it look like a gun
10. The case where a defendant was not guilty because a dead person was not entitled to vote
13. The rule which gives statutory words their plain, ordinary meaning
14. The case involving a railway worker who was oiling points rather than relaying or repairing them
15. The case which established the four questions used when applying the mischief rule
16. A situation where a word has more than one possible meaning