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• statute law made by parliament
• common law made by courts through precedent
• examples of criminal laws are murder, theft, assault and cyber
• an example of a civil law is defamation meaning something spoken or written that can harm your reputation in your trade or profession.
• statutory interpretation is the proccess where judges interpret word and/or phrases in legistation to determine their meaning
• statute a law made by parliament
• common law made by judges
• binding precedent is the legal reasoning for a decision in a higher court that must be followed by lower courts
• persuasive precedent is when a court decides a case based on a previous case that was similar to the case at hand
• ratio decidendi mean the legal reasoning behind a judges decision