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Originally Posted by HarryT
I've only read the third one of these links, but it's excellent. Thank you very much indeed for sharing your knowledge on the subject, which is obviously greater than that of most of us here (certainly mine).
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It's interesting that any law lecturer I've ever had, qualified people who presumably knew what they were talking about, was very loth to pronounce with finality on any even moderately complicated legal situation. They would usually emphasize that legal decisions could vary dependent on the "facts of the case" and used phrases such as "how the judge or jury interprets (x)" and "(y) may be considered a precedent or may be distinguished".
Definitive, absolute legal conclusions appear to be reserved to people who don't actually have a legal education.