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6. how many courts are in the hierarchy in criminal cases

  • six
  • five
  • four

7. another advantage of judicial precedent

  • right
  • consistency
  • accurate

8. court in a later case states that the legal rule decided in an earlier case is wrong

  • overruling
  • wrong
  • changing their minds

9. Laws made by the judges

  • judicial decision
  • judicial precedent
  • judicial law

10. disadvantage of judicial precedent

  • rigidity
  • hard
  • difficult

11. stresses that criminal law needs to be certain

  • wrong statement
  • practice statement
  • first statement

12. precedent from earlier case which must be followed even if the judge does not agree

  • together precedent
  • binding precedent
  • held precedent

13. court higher up can reverse a decision

  • reversing
  • changing
  • correcting

14. what was formally known as the house of lords

  • magistrates court
  • the supreme court
  • crown court

15. stand by what has been decided and do not unsettle the established

  • ratio decidendi
  • stare decisis
  • obiter dicta

16. advantage of judicial precedent

  • certainty
  • sure
  • clear

17. creates a precedent for judges to follow in the future

  • ratio decidendi
  • obiter dicta
  • stare decisis

18. not binding on the court, but the judge may consider it and decide that it is a correct principle so he is persuaded that he should follow it.

  • right precedent
  • persuasive precedent
  • leading precedent

19. two divisions of this court the civil and criminal

  • supreme court
  • the court of appeal
  • the court of human rights

20. how many courts are in the hierarchy in civil cases

  • seven
  • six
  • five