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This 4 page paper looks at a fictitious law and then at how it may be interpreted using the literal rule, the golden rule and looking at the act as a whole and the purpose of the act. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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File: TS14_TEintrplaw.rtf
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for betting with persons resorting thereto. The case we need to look at here is that of Marlene who is an unlicensed bookmaker. Her practice is to attend race meetings
and then set up a betting ring behind the stables. Racetracks have banned her on different occasions, but she has now been arrested and charged under this section of the
new act. We can look at this and consider how she may be prosecuted under it with the interpretation of the law, and then look at how she may be
able to defend herself and avoid a conviction. In looking at how the law could be interpreted to convict her her the first tool is to look at the
literal meaning of the words and apply them to the case (James, 1996). The law clearly states that an individual must not keep an house, office, room or other place
for persons restoring thereto. Marline has been n the space behind the stables for an hour. Therefore, this may be seen as an other place. The keeping of that
place is quite clearly for the purposes of unlicensed bettering, and people have been seen coming and going to make bets. This is not under dispute, and as such she
has been keeping a place for the purposes that are prohibited under the act. As place is defined as " An area with definite or indefinite boundaries; a portion of
space (Dictionary com, 2004) If we look at this in terms of the golden rule. Here we are looking for the normal and grammatical meaning of the words that avoid
any absurdity. We can look at the meaning of the and reinterpret it with the same meaning with the words other than that in the act but appear to give
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