HOW THE PRACTICE OF PRECEDENT ACCOMMODATE SOCIAL CHANGE? LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE COMMON LAW SYSTEM IN AUSTRALIA
The practice of precedent which essentially means that judges should refer to previous decisions when they decide similar cases seems contradict with the nature of society which continouslyevolves. Law, on the one hand. need to be certain and therefore. it is somewhat rigid. On the other hand, socie...
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[Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada
2007
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