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What are the benefits of judicial precedent?

Judicial precedent allows for certainty in the law, this means that the law can be predictable and transparent when being applied to situations. Judicial precedent can be flexible, precedent can be flexible as it can be adjusted according to changes in societal opinion, this makes it more fair and modern.Judicial precedent reflects real life situations, cases demonstrate what the laws that the government create look like in practice. When judges apply the law to these cases we are able to see how the law works in these real life situations.

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