ABSTRACT

Legal arguments take place through the mediating influence of language both oral and written. As already noticed, language is a notoriously flexible and subjective medium of communication. The consideration already given to statutory, European and common law rules, and the discretion language injects into the process of interpretation demonstrates this flexibility. This is what moulds the law and determines outcomes. How perilously we hover on the brink of another explanation when we engage in the interpretation of words.