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    Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 was an unfortunately retrogressive decision in English administrative law, insofar as it suggested that there are degrees of unreasonableness and that only a very extreme degree can bring an administrative decision within the legitimate scope of judicial invalidation. The depth of judicial review and the deference due to administrative discretion vary with the subject matter. It may well be, however, that the law can never be satisfied in any administrative field merely by a finding

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    Exploration of English Law In English law, there is no formal separation of public and private law, no constitutional court and before the enactment of the Human Rights Act 1998 there has been no catalogue of fundamental rights as it can be found in many continental European constitutional documents

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    English Should Be Law?

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    English Should be the Law? Whether or not English should be the law in the United States is an argument that is widely being considered. Some believe the United States should make English the official language, some do not. Various Americans believe it would unify the country by giving us a common thread, it would help immigrants in school and in the job market and it would be less expensive than having a multilingual nation. Many opposers of the law do not agree with it because they think they

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    Contract Law What is a contract? There is no exact definition of a contract stated in the English law, but a contract simply occurs when two or more people comes to an agreement, under the law, to refrain or to do something having a legal relations and not just an exchange of mutual promises. In common English law, there are 3 essential points in order to create a contract, which is, the agreement, contractual intention, and consideration in both parties. Typically, an agreement can happen when

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    Common law - that part of the English law not embodied in legislation. It consists of rules of law based on common custom and usage and on judicial court decisions. English common law became the basis of law in the USA and many other English-speaking countries. Trial by jury - There isn't really a definition that holds true everywhere. A trial by Jury in the UK is very different from a trial by Jury in the US. Trial by jury in the 15th century was very different from trial by jury now. In all depends

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    Question 1:- The European law has affects the current English law by stating which particular bodies of rules needed to be taken into consideration. And the commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 whose passed principles which modified the traditional common-law agency rules has also produced an entirely new and commercially important form of agency. Courts may use the instrument’s preamble or the Directives explanatory notes in order to define the aim of the European Directives

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    learned so much about how criminal law is evaluated, organized, and made. Also I learned about the English common law includes legislation, and a multitude of other legal norms that help on the evaluation of criminal laws, such as federal and state constitutions that are based on congress and state legislatures. It also includes how the lawmakers are made or changed by the judicial powers of review and how the judicial power interpret them. English common law in the past was based on the principle

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    The English common law system is obliged to comply with the rights and obligations under the Human Rights Act Convention. Even though they are not bound by it has been advised by the House of Lords to harmonise or comply with the Conventions, on a equivalent basis which is “no more, but certainly no less”. The Convention does not guarantee damages for violations that have occurred between private parties, it only protects them against the public authorities, thus only binding states. Generally the

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    Germany would mean that the business must consider how the different law systems will affect them as a business, therefore they must establish the differences between English common law and the civil law. The English common law is set based on decisions made by the higher courts, judicial opinion and similar cases which is known as “doctrine of Stare decisis ” while the civil law consists of a “codified set of laws” . The common law involves the judges making the decisions, setting the precedent, and

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    need for government and law. The question was of what law and of what government. The English common law was in practice, for the most part, in all the colonies and was the root of many feelings of tyranny. The colonial experience drew large cause for new common law as it differed so much from European experience. For example, as time went on, more and more Americans began owning land at a far larger rate than their European counter parts. This created a need for me common law address ownership. Another

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