GMGT 3300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Precedent, Ratio Decidendi

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: General Management
• Course: GMGT 3300
• Professor: Ian A.Restall

Document Summary

Napoleon re-vamped the code: this system was adopted in canada only in quebec for private law (not federal), it is used in other countries though. Sktc; therefore, if there is no binding precedent, you can persuade judges to follow that ruling: not everything a judge says is deciding a case is binding on judges" later cases. Ratio decidendi is binding, the reasons that explain why the judge made the decision they did. Orbiter dicta is not binding, is everything else the judge says other than the ratio decidendi: examples: 1.