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Sources of law: case law
Choose a topic from the list below
1. Case law as a source of law
2. The doctrine of precedent
3. Cases that are potentially relevant as precedents
4. The jurisdiction and seniority of courts
5. Precedents that are not binding
6. The 'ratio decidendi' of a case
7. Information in law reports
Case names and dates
Catchwords and headnotes
The court, judges and counsel
Special terms and phrases found in law reports
8. The structure of a law report
9. Collections of law reports
10. Citing a law report
11. A case study using case law
Searching for similar cases
Evaluating the authority of previous decisions
Reading and analysing potentially relevant cases
Predicting the outcome
12. Words and phrases
