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law making - Coggle Diagram

- - - - in some situations if the court thinks the earlier precedent is wrong then it might overrule or reverse that precendent
  - - - if you store something dangerous on ur lap and it escapes then your liable for consequenses
- - - - court of justice of the EU
      - supreme court
      - court of appeal
      - divisional court
      - high court/crown court
      - magistrates/country court
- - - - :
        
        r v cunningham
        
        r v caldwell
        
        r v and r and g
    - - london street tramways v loncdon cc 1898
        
        if it waws thought that a decision of house of lords was wrong only way to change it was to pass an act of parliament
        
        house of lords made ythi
      - current rule - practice statement of 1966
        
        precedent is a good system for developing the lse, if you stick too rigifly to precedent the law can change too slowly. \the highest court should follwo its own precedent buy vsn frpsty gtom ptrv decision when its right to do so
  - - - bishops
    - - heridatory peers
      - lige peers
    - - judges in house of lords have no mandate
- - - - A decision from a lower court (eg R v R)
      - Arguments and commentary (obiter dicta) from an earlier case (eg Donoghue v Stevenson)
      - The decision of a foreign court dealing with a similar case
      - A minority judgment from a CA or HoL case (eg Junior Books v Veitchi).
      - Academic opinions (eg from textbooks like Treitel on Contract or articles in journals like the Law Quarterly Review)