Simon Singh Wins - US Law To The Rescue!
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 22:49
in Psychology & Sociology
Simon Singh Wins - US Law To The Rescue! The British Courts do not indulge themselves in bogus judgements - not even on April 1st. This article is genuine. A note on common law: Both the US and the UK are common law jurisdictions. British courts will accordingly take note of US court judgements, but are not legally bound to follow them. Occasionally, a judge will recognise that UK law is insufficient alone to secure a just result. In such circumstances the judge may be more inclined than otherwise to accept a sufficiently fair and just US ruling as providing a model and a precedent. read more