Duxbury, Neil.

The Nature and Authority of Precedent [electronic resource]. / Neil Duxbury. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008 - 1 online resource (224 p.) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Neil Duxbury examines how precedents constrain legal decision-makers and how legal decision-makers are able to relax those constraints. In doing so, he shows that no single principle explains the authority of precedent; instead there are a number of arguments which raise rebuttable presumptions in favour of precedent-following.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9780511818684 (ebook) 9780521885799 (hardback)


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