LAW 201 Lecture 1: Law201 Lecture 1
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Supreme law of the land and trumps everything. Regulations, valid legislation is behind the constitution as a valid source. However we also have the criminal code and this is used through statutory law. Laws that are then made true though previous decisions this happens when lawyers use as back up in new cases. This is why we are called a common law constitution this allows us to use the ruled provided from others and use them in our favour. Orde of courts: the constitution, (look back later. Legal reasoning a fairly structured way to solve legal puzzles each case generally involves the refinement of a new rule, the use of an old rule or a new rule. Use this to do what we need to do with the law and to predict what is going to happen. Legal reasoning in a nut shell: state the law. Must know the order of priority in the law.
