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Precedent — bindingness and departure. *London Tramways*, the 1966 Practice Statement, and
"In 1898 the House of Lords declared itself absolutely bound by its own decisions; in 1966 it released itself by a three-paragraph statement made in n…
Precedent — bindingness and departure. *London Tramways*, the 1966 Practice Statement, and
"In 1898 the House of Lords declared itself absolutely bound by its own decisions; in 1966 it released itself by a three-paragraph statement made in n…
Precedent — bindingness and departure. *London Tramways*, the 1966 Practice Statement, and
"In 1898 the House of Lords declared itself absolutely bound by its own decisions; in 1966 it released itself by a three-paragraph statement made in n…
Case law technique — the ratio decidendi
"The ratio decidendi of a case is not what the deciding court laid down; it is what later courts choose to extract." Discuss, with reference to *Donog…