Legal precedent comes from court decisions where judges are asked to interpret the law, and once a court rules on an issue, legal precedent becomes the law. This means that legal precedent and ...

In Willers v Joyce & anr [2016] UKSC 43, the Supreme Court has provided clarity on a previously unsettled point of the doctrine of precedent: the English courts should never follow a decision of the ...

Employee restrictive covenants are often a contentious issue, especially when employees leave to form (or join) competing firms. A recent Alberta Court of King’s Bench decision, People Corporation v ...

This article is part of an ongoing series from the Post-Truth Initiative, a Strategic Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Sydney. The series examines today’s post-truth problem in ...

IN THE RECENT decision of the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the opinions cited a myriad of precedents, or ...

The law is harsh, but it is the law: so says the AI judge in a recent study from the University of Chicago Law School. The study analysed the differences between AI and human legal decision-making, ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated ...

On any given day, benches of different sizes consisting of two, three, five or more judges decide on a variety of cases, making judicial discipline regarding precedents even more crucial.

Which legal decisions can be used as a precedent, and which cannot? The question was raised in a piece in The New York Times this week about the Bush v. Gore case that decided the 2000 election. Legal ...

Today the Supreme Court announced its decision in Gamble v. United States, in which it declined to overturn its longstanding view that the Double Jeopardy Clause does not prevent an individual from ...