Sentences with phrase «authoritative higher court rulings»

If I could claim to have fully considered the sum of your collective contributions concerning stare decisis as emphasizing the need for judges at first instance to be fully informed of the applicable law and to follow it, then I would have expanded my speculative musings to suggest that notoriety of a lower court decision is what gives it the potential to muscle its way into gaining equal consideration alongside authoritative higher court rulings when the issue before the court is novel.

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Of course, we now have the pending High Court proceedings by the Fair Trading Office against a group of leading bankers though, with the stay of all county claims in the meantime being far from inevitable, there could be authoritative rulings elsewhere before the High Court proceedings reach the finishing post.