Questions

1. What are some examples of legal rules that have ethical characteristics when conducting business at a domestic or international level?
2. What is meant by 'socially responsible investing' by business and companies?
3. What fundamental values and beliefs are actually embodied in the Law?
4. Within any society and legal system, what is meant by the ideal of the 'rule of the law'?
5. What are the main differences between common law and statute law?
6. What are the three main purposes of the hierarchy of courts within a legal system?
7. Within the context of law making and precedent what is the meant by the term res judicata?
8. List some arguments for and against the system of judicial precedent (judicial activism) within any legal system.
9. Distinguish the legal expressions used in the creation of precedents, ratio decidendi and obiter dicta.
10. How does a persuasive precedent differ from a binding precedent and are courts always bound by such precedents?