The You Can't Make This Shit Up Department

[Jenny A]

Another difference, you have those determining cases that solve similar cases for the future and pretty much have an 'executive' or 'legislative/legal' force, while here a decision by a court only has effect on the case sentenced, all other similar cases can be decided differently as long as the interpretation can still fit the law. Unless it's our constitutional court forbidding a law because it goes against the constitution, but those are extreme cases, and have been happening frequently

Ah that's the common law system we inherited from the British. They too have case law. I think, but maybe someone else from the relevant countries can confirm this, that Canada, Australia, India, and other countries once held by the British have case law based upon precedent too.

I'm grateful to the British for inventing it too. The law ought to be applied to everyone in the same way under the same circumstances.

You might be interested to know that in vast areas of civil tort law there is hardly any legislative law at all. It's all court case law.