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Advantages and disadvantages of case law

Peter Blood explains this important AS topic and provides some useful exam tips

Does turning off a life support machine break the chain of causation?

This ‘Examination focus’ is relevant to AQA AS Unit 1, OCR AS Unit G151 and WJEC LA1.

Case law is sometimes referred to as ‘judicial precedent’, or ‘precedent’ for short. It forms one of the two most important sources of English law, the other being legislation.

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