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Sometimes a judge may make a new rule to be used in future cases by interpreting something into an existing Act of Parliament
The 'statute' refers to the law the defendant has supposedly broken in the case the judge is hearing.
The 'interpretation' refers to the way the judge reads, understand, and then applies the law to the case before them.
Golden rule- this is when the judge follows the literal rule, until the decision would be absurd, in which case they make the commonsense decision