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