[Noisebridge-discuss] OT: battlestar wanted

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Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson <mik at stanford.edu> writes:

> It's worth pointing out at this point that Swedish law is codified as
> opposed to precedent based - the mission of the courts is to interpret
> existing law texts and find basis for judgement in those. When doing
> this, they are certainly expected to take existing precedents into
> account in shaping their decisions; but as opposed to, say, US and UK
> law, the rulings do not acquire full force of law.

interesting. i didn't realize that precedents acquired any legal standing.

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