Sources of Law Part II: The Common Law
Channel: mohsenalattar1
Date: 2015-11-18

Law in the UK is sourced from common law and statutory law. The common law system is based on judge made law. Decisions draw on precedent established by superior courts in previous cases and organised around the principles of individual liberty and individual possession of private property. Parliament is the supreme law making body and source of law since the 1688 Bill of Rights. Parliamentary supremacy means that statutes are superior law and prevail over case law. Building upon our earlier discussion on the separation of powers, this series of lectures provides an introduction to the relationship between common and statutory law.