Berkeley Law
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This “great constitution” or Magna Carta of 1215 also required that the King’s entourage of judges maintain their courts and judgments at “a certain place” rather than dishing out autocratic justice in unpredictable places about the country. A concentrated and elite group of judges acquired a dominant position in law-making underneath this system, and in comparability with its European counterparts the English judiciary turned extremely centralised. In 1297, as an example, while the best court docket in France had fifty-one judges, the English Court of Common Pleas had 5. This powerful and tight-knit judiciary gave rise to a systematised strategy …