Judicial decision making
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Legal reasoning
  • 2 Fact-finding
    • 2.1 Everyday fact-finding
    • 2.2 Legal fact-finding
    • 2.3 Material facts
  • 3 Decision making
  • 4 Reasons
  • 5 Bias in judicial decision-making
    • 5.1 Empirical evidence
    • 5.2 Feminist Legal Judgments Project
  • 6 Precedent and interpretation
  • 7 Sliding Doors and stare decisis
    • 7.1 The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting
  • 8 Precedent for prediction and persuasion
    • 8.1 Ratio decidendi and obiter dicta
    • 8.2 The judicial hierarchy
    • 8.3 Analogy in law
  • 9 Certainty and uncertainty
  • 10 Do judges make law?
    • 10.1 Judges as legislators
  • 11 Consolidation quiz – Part 1
  • 12 Consolidation quiz – Part 2
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References

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