... made by the judges who hear and try cases, they also listen to the evidence and the legal argument , from here they prepare a written decision stating which party is going to win based on the facts of the case and how the law applies to those facts. However, when a judge decides a case, he/she must follow any decision that has been made by a higher court in a case with similar facts. The rules concerning which courts are bound by which are known as the rules of precedent. Judicial precedence is a source of law created by judges and it is also an important part of case law. It is one of the oldest sources of law, and there are at least 400,000 reported cases. Judicial precedence is basically when a previous decision made by the courts is used as a model or precedent for all future decisions ...

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