By Jaap Hage, Antonia Waltermann, Bram Akkermans
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As a consequence the court has the leeway to adapt the law to what it deems is reasonable. Distinguishing The binding nature of precedent only applies to future cases that are similar to the already decided case. In this connection, “similar” means identical 34 J. Hage in all the relevant aspects. This creates leeway for the development of law because a court that must decide a new case has to determine whether the new case is really similar to the alleged precedent. By pointing out relevant differences (distinguishing), the court can argue that the cases are not similar and that it is not bound by a particular precedent.
Administrative law has many branches of its own, including social security law, environmental law, and tax law. International Law International law, the law that regulates relations between states and international organizations, is also a branch of public law and is therefore sometimes also called international public law. 2 European Union Law European Union law illustrates that the division between private and public law is not always clear-cut. On the one hand, there are treaties between the European Union (EU) Member States in which the main institutions of the EU are regulated.
Most of the time, however, a valid institutional rule will be an effective rule. If an institutional rule is not used anymore (desuetudo in Latin), this may be seen as a reason to assume that the rule has lost its validity again. It this has happened, effectiveness had some influence on the validity of an institutional rule. Most Rules Institutional Nowadays, most legal rules exist as institutional rules. They are valid legal rules because they satisfy the conditions of some other rule that specifies which rules count as valid legal rules.