This sort of adaptability is one of the reasons that Hayek liked the Common Law system so much.
What interests me most about this story is the way that it shows the adaptability of the Common Law system.
And what we seem to have done through both the lawyers and the bureaucrats is move from the Common Law system to the Napoleonic.
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With the new constitutional order laid down in the Basic Law on July 1, 1997, the common-law system is preserved, except insofar it is inconsistent with the Basic Law.
As a result, the scope of the common-law system of judicial review has been significantly broadened.
It is natural for those familiar with the common-law system to object to a non-judicial body overturning an interpretation given by a final appellate court.
Therefore, some aspects of the common-law system have been modified.
To advocate an open-ended qualification of the common-law system by introducing unspecified civil-law concepts is to betray the basic spirit and intent of the "basic policies" and the Basic Law.
The two factors most closely associated with higher liability costs are the number of lawyers and whether the country has a common-law system like the U.S., where judges decide much of the law governing liability or a civil law tradition, where the rules are set down in a relatively unchanging civil code.
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For non-lawyers who want an introduction to the judge-made system we call the common law, this book is the ideal primer.
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The three most expensive jurisdictions were the U.S., U.K. and Canada, all of which use the English system of common law.
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The power of the CFA in a common-law system must include a power to finally interpret all laws in Hong Kong.
In a common-law system, each decision of the court acts as precedent for future cases and the interpretations form part of the law of Hong Kong.
Common sense and the principles of tort law in the American civil justice system are not always synonymous.
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Our common values, our common belief in the rule of law, in democracy, in freedom, in a free market system -- all those things bind us together, as do the extraordinary economic and commercial relationships that we have and the people-to-people relationships that we have.
In the federal system, severe restrictions have been imposed on the ancient writ of habeas corpus, a common law doctrine predating the U.S. Constitution by several centuries, which allows the wrongly convicted to attack their trials and verdicts.
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