The English legal system
HE · 50 minutes · Explain sources of law and precedent.
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Our learning goal
Explain sources of law and precedent.
Your turn: Choose one thing you would like to understand by the end.
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- Today: The English legal system. Our goal: Explain sources of law and precedent.
- Take one idea at a time. Pause after each sentence; ask for repetition whenever you need it.
- Law comes from statute, case law, and retained EU law. Stare decisis binds lower courts to higher ones on ratio decidendi; obiter is persuasive only. Statutory interpretation uses literal, golden, mischief and purposive approaches, read with the Human Rights Act 1998.
- Together: choose one example from the explanation and show how it works. What do you notice?
- Your turn: Brief one case: facts, issue, ratio, outcome.
- Reflect: what made sense, and what would you like explained differently?
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