Moreover, it has been criticised for the manner in which the principles were applied or interpreted (principles examined in isolation) in the given case [ 14].
Interpreting such principles into feasible methods requires further research to validate scales for measurement of the constructs of values, feasibility and acceptability, including the one we used in this study.
We need to interpret our principles for society around these insights.
Whether or not the court interprets these principles more generously in future will be a matter for the judges themselves to decide.
The compromise would insert religion more deeply into the legislative and judicial process by elaborating new guidelines to interpret "the principles of Islamic law" that the old Constitution had recognized, at least nominally, as the main source of Egyptian legislation.
The 12 "justices" – as the judges prefer to be known – disentangle points of mind-wrenching complexity from contradictory precedents, interpret broad principles enshrined in human rights legislation, influence the development of the law and, as privy councillors, deliberate on the death penalty in foreign jurisdictions.
It is difficult to know how to interpret these principles of plenitude.
Many thanks to Eileen O'Neill for suggesting various ways of interpreting the principle of contradiction, suggestions that helped clarify my thinking on this aspect of Du Châtelet's philosophy.
But different people will interpret the principles differently, which will lead to different design choices, some of which will be clearly better than others.
Instead, they will usually have to interpret the principles of situational prevention at each stage of the intervention: when understanding the opportunity structure giving rise to the crime, when identifying the range of suitable interventions, when thinking about the costs and benefits of possible interventions, when developing an implementation plan and when seeking to evaluate the results.
