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Arrest Warrants have been issued. Bothe the Prime Minister David Cameron and the monarch Queen of England have been charged with sexual crimes against children as part of an international pedophile ring. This is not surprising as there is a worldwide connection being revealed by ex-clerics civil servants and other whistle blowers that are coming forward with evidence to incriminate these and other members of church and state.
The Queen however, is a balls out monarch, who has done more for the people of her country, than anyone gives her credit for. She drove ambulances during the Second World War, around a crater strewn London, during the worst bombing raids one could imagine, dodging bombs and frag, just to rescue regular people from the horrors of the period.
originally posted by: knoledgeispower
Now if memory serves me right, this is the same group that has already issued an arrest warrant for the Pope and wanted all of the Roman Catholics Church possessions seized. I might be wrong, I could be thinking of a different group.
originally posted by: hellobruce
originally posted by: knoledgeispower
Now if memory serves me right, this is the same group that has already issued an arrest warrant for the Pope and wanted all of the Roman Catholics Church possessions seized. I might be wrong, I could be thinking of a different group.
No, you are correct - except it is not a group, just a idiot making crap up and posting it from his mum's basement.
A "common law system" is a legal system that gives great precedential weight to common law, on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different occasions. The body of precedent is called "common law" and it binds future decisions.
In cases where the parties disagree on what the law is, a common law court looks to past precedential decisions of relevant courts. If a similar dispute has been resolved in the past, the court is usually bound to follow the reasoning used in the prior decision (this principle is known as stare decisis).
If, however, the court finds that the current dispute is fundamentally distinct from all previous cases (called a "matter of first impression"), judges have the authority and duty to make law by creating precedent. Thereafter, the new decision becomes precedent, and will bind future courts.
Origins of the Common Law
Common law is an invention of the English courts: the Kings Bench, the Court of Common Pleas and the Exchequer so as to ensure, as remains the case today, that there were laws that superceded the decisions of the lesser courts.
Judges create the common law by delivering written judgments about the cases before them. If, for example, Magistrates’ Courts across England and Wales were able to make and follow their own precedent, this would create a huge variation in local and regional customs that could mean that local regimes are barely recognisable from one another.
The common law ensures that the law remains ‘common’ throughout the land. However, as it is the House of Lords and the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) that create the legal precedent in relation to criminal matters in England and Wales, it is the decisions made by these higher courts that bind the lower courts.
There are some situations that are entirely new in relation to the common law, and the English courts do sometimes look abroad at the decisions of other commonwealth courts in order to seek direction or guidance from them. For example, an English court may be asked to consider a case decided in Canada or Australia in the absence of there being any precedent set in an English court. This can also assist in allowing the common law system to have a degree of flexibility but also, because courts look to each other for guidance, a certain level of stability too.
Common Law and Statute Law
Although the English legal system is founded on common law, that is not to say that statutes are any less binding. In fact, statute law codifies certain rules whereas the common law provides interpretations, and clarification when facts of instant cases are applied to the codified law. As a result, the common law and statute law complement each other well: common law keeps statute law up to date and in keeping with modern problems and solutions, as well as creating precedent where there is no statutory codification.