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    DO JUDGES MAKE LAW? There are two main sources of English Law- legislation and cases. When interpreting legislation judges must ascertain the intention of Parliament and‚ except insofar as they apply the mischief rule of interpretation‚ they do not make law. Traditionally and due to the doctrine of the separation of powers judicial role is really not properly legislative at all‚ but consist merely in stating what the existing law actually is‚ and interpreting authoritatively doubtful points as

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    the parliament can make laws in the legislation. But‚ there is something that confuses the sovereignty of the parliament‚ which is the “judge-made law”. Is there such thing as a judge-made law? What is a judge-made law? A judge-made law is when a judge applies or extends an established rule to new facts‚ or decides that the particular rule do not take effect on certain situations‚ thus‚ making a change in the law. However‚ when it comes to this‚ it does not mean that the judges have the power to

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    such thing as judge-made law‚ for the judges do not make the law‚ though they frequently have to apply existing law to circumstances as to which it has not previously been authoritatively laid down that such law is applicable.” Generally‚ the position judges adopted is to interpret the law instead of concerning with the justice of their decisions. In modern tie‚ there is still existence of powerful ideology that denies any creative role to judges. The popular view of the judges is not to give

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    Judges do make law — it’s their job By Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk Misleading and silly slogans about what judges do are dominating the debate about Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. President Bush and Republican politicians constantly repeat‚ as a mantra‚ that Roberts is a desirable choice because he won’t "legislate from the bench" and will merely "apply the law‚ not make it." But every lawyer knows that judges make law — it’s their job. In fact‚ law students learn in the first semester

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    Constitution. If judges were to make law then they would be contradicting this doctrine. The legislative supremacy disqualifies the courts power to review the validity of legislation‚ refer to British Railway Board v Pickin . The objective of judges is to not make law but simply declare what the law had always been. Acts of Parliament are the highest form of authority and the courts hands are tied by it. But through the doctrine of precedent‚ the judicial function of declaring and applying the law has a ‘quasi-legislative

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    Introduction A law is an obligatory rule of conduct imposed and enforced by the sovereign[1]. Therefore the law is the body of principles recognized and enforced by the state in the application of justice. The law is mainly made by a parliament‚ a legislative body given power by the constitution to draft law. However in the last few decades there has been a notion that judges make law.A judge is a public official appointed or elected to hear and decide legal matters in court[2]‚ Judges exercise judicial

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    A judge-made law is a law rooted in a judiciary decision‚ not an act of legislation made by lawmakers or a regulation created by a government agency with the legal authority to do so. The collective body of judge-made laws in a nation is also known as case law. Many nations allow judges to set legal precedents when making high court decisions‚ adding to the body of law in a nation and providing new interpretation of existing laws. Lower courts do not have the authority to make judge-made law. Only

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    University of London Common Law Reasoning Institutions Essay Title: “There can be no real argument about it: judges make law. The declaratory theory is more or less nonsense.” Student Number: 120448995 Candidate Number: 150573 Historically there are lots of arguments by the philosophers and the critics that judges make law or not. Actually judges are meant only to interpret the law. This can be seen that somehow they are making law but the question arises whether this is lawful

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    Do judges make law or merely play a role in interpreting law? Discuss Judges do both. Judges interpret the statue law and they make the common law. There are two types of law one would be the primary law‚ which is also known as the statue law and the secondary law‚ which is also known as the common law. For the primary law it is created by the legislature‚ which is the parliament as the parliament has the power to make the statue because the people elected them. So the judges interpret the primary

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    legislation: Practically‚ every enacted law on a probing analysis reveals certain gaps which the judiciary is expected to fill up by way of interpretation. This is popularly known as “Judicial Legislation”. Such filling up is however expected to be done in consonance and conformity with the constitutional dictates and confined to the extent permitted by the Constitution which distinguishes it from being branded as an instance of “Judicial overreach” Do Judges make law? The traditional view on this matter

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