Judicial Precedent

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Created by: chaz
Created on: 16-05-09 13:30

1. What is meant by Stare Decisis?

Reason for deciding
Stand by what has been decided
Stay with your decision
Other things said

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2. Hunter and others v Canary Wharf Ltd is an example of which type of precedent?

Reason by Analogy
Original Precedent
Binding Precedent
Persuasive Precedent

3. Precedent can only operate if the past decisions for that case are known?

True
False

4. The practice statement does not allow the House of Lords to depart from their previous decisions?

False
True

5. An example of Persuasive precedent is...

Dissenting Judgment
Reason for deciding
Past decisions

Comments

Smokey

Report Mon 18th May, 2009 @ 13:12

100% AGAIN

I AM GOOD!!!

hehe

Paige Headon

Report Mon 4th January, 2010 @ 16:53

oh dear. im rubbish at this!

F-raz

Report Sat 3rd April, 2010 @ 20:54

yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 100% I am good baby ;)

Claire thomas

Report Tue 4th May, 2010 @ 10:48

80% yay :) hope the exam goes that well... lol. x

Jamie Bell

Report Tue 30th November, 2010 @ 10:52

Walk in the parkkk

Gabriel Osamor

Report Mon 7th November, 2011 @ 14:40

Yippie 100%..

scott brindley

Report Fri 2nd December, 2011 @ 14:05

hello world

Monalisa

Report Wed 4th January, 2012 @ 22:00

One wrong but that's because I wasn't taught about that case. So technically 100% :)

Chelsea Leigh

Report Thu 5th January, 2012 @ 10:00

Question 2 is wrong, 'reason by analogy' is not a type of precendent, it is what the judges do in order to create an original precedent.

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