00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000003371 09839/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09840/MKRI-P/XI-2008 20221107091231 09840/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09839/MKRI-P/XI-2008 0010-0520003371 221107################|##########|#eng## 9780521713368 eng 347 347 DUX n Duxbury, Neil Nature and Authority of Precedent / Neil Duxbury Cambridge : Thomson, 2008 xv,189p.; 23cm. ; 23cm. Indeks : p.184-189 This book examines the force and the limitations of these arguments and shows that, although the principal requirement of the doctrine of precedent is that courts respect earlier judical decisions on mterially identical facts, the doctrine also requires courts to depart from such decisions when following them would perpetuate legal error or injustice. Not only do judical precedents not 'bind' judges in the classical-positivist sense, but, were they to do so, they would be ill suited to common-law decision-making. It will assist anyone seeking to understand how precedent operates as a common-law doctrine. Precedent 09839/MKRI-P/XI-2008 09840/MKRI-P/XI-2008