In thepower pointsit says that Legal Reasoning is "basically deductive, with legal rule as majorpremise and facts as the minor premise" and that "case law reasoning - stating that the court can rulebased on precedent or distinguish the differences from the current case".

This provides:

• insight into howjudges and lawyers think
• helps to dispel the idea that law is always fixed - evenprecedent is flexible
• provides some insight to the mechanisms by which the law responds to social change

When someone is being chargedwith a crime, how do you think legal reasoning comes into play?