1. Statutory Interpretation is not a straight forward task for many reasons. Firstly it is not easy to know what parliament intended when passing the act. For example, if an act stated, ¡¥Dogs, Cats, Hamsters and other animals¡¦, then it would be difficult to know which animals were included in the generalisation ¡¥other animals¡¦. For this reason there are rules or approaches to applying and interpreting statutes. An example which could be applied to ¡¥other animals¡¦ is a rule of language, ejusdem generis, which states that the general words are limited to the same kind of items as the specific word. Another reason is that different people interpret things different ways. An example of this could be the R ¡V v ¡V Maginnis case where the phrase ¡¥intent to supply¡¦ needed to be put into the context of a case where the defendant had been charged with possession and...