1 Legal reasoning
The start of this course (Sections 1-6) introduces you to what happens when a legal dispute goes through the courts, considering how the courts take the facts relating to legal disputes, analyse them, assessing what is relevant or not, and then uses them to make legal decisions. It also considers what happens when decisions are made and the process through which judges record their decisions so that future courts can follow them, if it is appropriate to do so.
Watch the video below for an introduction to what you will learn about in the start of this course.
OpenLearn - Judicial decision making
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