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  2. Oposa v. Factoran - Wikipedia

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    [6] According to Oposa, the case should be called Oposa with Factoran because his friend Kuya Jun Factoran, a human rights lawyer, actually encouraged to sue the government using his name as the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and to include the dozens of children as real-parties-in-interest, while it was the ...

  3. Statutory interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Statutory interpretation is the process by which courts interpret and apply legislation. Some amount of interpretation is often necessary when a case involves a statute. Sometimes the words of a statute have a plain and a straightforward meaning. But in many cases, there is some ambiguity in the words of the statute that must be resolved by the ...

  4. Heydon's Case - Wikipedia

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    Heydon's Case (1584) 76 ER 637 is considered a landmark case: it was the first case to use what would come to be called the mischief rule of statutory interpretation.The mischief rule is more flexible than the golden or literal rule, in that the mischief rule requires judges to look over four tasks to ensure that gaps within the law are covered.

  5. Court of Tax Appeals - Wikipedia

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    The Court of Tax Appeals (Filipino: Hukuman ng Apelasyon sa Buwis [2]) is the special court of limited jurisdiction, and has the same level with the Court of Appeals.The court consists of 8 Associate Justices and 1 Presiding Justice.

  6. Purposive approach - Wikipedia

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    The purposive approach (sometimes referred to as purposivism, [1] purposive construction, [2] purposive interpretation, [3] or the modern principle in construction) [4] is an approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation under which common law courts interpret an enactment (a statute, part of a statute, or a clause of a constitution) within the context of the law's purpose.

  7. Original intent - Wikipedia

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    Original intent is a theory in law concerning constitutional and statutory interpretation. It is frequently used as a synonym for originalism; while original intent is one theory in the originalist family, it has some salient differences which has led originalists from more predominant schools of thought such as original meaning to distinguish original intent as much as legal realists do.

  8. Judicial interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Judicial interpretation is the way in which the judiciary construes the law, particularly constitutional documents, legislation and frequently used vocabulary.This is an important issue in some common law jurisdictions such as the United States, Australia and Canada, because the supreme courts of those nations can overturn laws made by their legislatures via a process called judicial review.

  9. Springer v. Government of the Philippine Islands - Wikipedia

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    The case was an action of quo warranto, on behalf of the Government against Milton E. Springer, Dalamacio Costas, and Anselmo Hilario, the three directors of the National Coal Committee. [1] The Philippine Legislature created a coal company and a bank, and the majority of the stock was owned by the government itself.