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Originally Posted by furball
Boogster hereby presents Missing The Actual Point 101 
Precedent is set by the ratio decidendi of a case - the reasoning behind a decison. It is the point in the case that determines the judgement. For example, Fagan v Metropolitan Police Commissioner. I don't like linking to wikipedia for this, but most law databases require special access, usually via Athens for us students. |
Well, smother me with chocolate and sell me for 10p: I'm a right chump am't I?
I know all this stuff. I was simply going on this:
'But the judge told the couple they faced "an insurmountable hurdle" in trying to have a same-sex marriage recognised in English law.
Giving his ruling on Monday he said the majority of people and governments across Europe regarded marriage as an "age-old institution".
Marriage was, by "longstanding definition and acceptance", a formal relationship between a man and a woman primarily designed for producing and rearing children, he said. '
Forgive me, I simply couldn't be bothered to look up the stuff. Thanks for doing it for me and for the great lashings of condescension.