Although common-law systems make extensive use of statutes, judicial cases are regarded as the most important source of law, which gives judges an active role in developing rules."
Thanks heaven our judges give precedence to out thousand-year long tradition rather than the will of whipped carrerists, although it is increasingly less the case.
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