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Precedent and Law by Julius Stone. Sydney: Butterworths, 1985, xx + 277 + (index) 12 pp (hardback £35.00).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Miers
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Legal Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , November 1986 , pp. 331 - 336
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1986

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References

1. See, eg, Eisenberg, M., ‘Private Ordering through Negotiation: Dispute Settlement and Rule-Making’ (1976) 89 Google Scholar HLR 637.

2. Davis v Johnson [1979] AC 272 being the last real effort, forcefully snubbed by Lord Diplock on appeal. See H. Carty, ‘Precedent and the Court of Appeal’ (1980) 1 LS 68; and C. Rickett, (1980) ‘Precedent in the Court of Appeal’ 43 MLR 136. See also the range of views expressed in the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords in Farrell v Alexander [1976] QB 345, [1977] AC 59.

3. See, eg, Robert, Goff LJ in Elliott v Christie (1983) 17 Google Scholar Cr App Rep 103.

4. R v Greater Manchester Coroner, exp Tal [1984] 3 All ER 240 and Colchester Estates v Carlton Industries [1984] 2 All ER 601 (High Court); R v Spencer [1985] 2 WLR 197 (Court of Appeal, Criminal Division); and Williams v Fawcett [1985] 1 All ER 787 (Court of Appeal, Civil Division).

5. Eg, L. Fuller, The Morality of Law.

6. W. Twining, ‘Evidence and Legal Theory’ in Legal Theory and Common Law (1986), pp 62–80 and N. MacCormick and W. Twining, ‘Theory in the Law Curriculum’, ibid, pp 239–254.

7. T. E. Lewis, ‘The History of Judicial Precedent’ (1930) 46 LQR 207–224, 341–360, (1931) 47 LQR 411–427, and (1932) 48 LQR 230–247.

8. N. Andrews, ‘Reporting case law: unreported cases, the definition of a ratio and the criteria for reporting decisions' (1985) 5 LS 205.

9. Eg, Salmond, J., ‘The Theory of Judicial Precedents’ (1900) 16 Google Scholar LQR 376.

10. Goodhart, A., ‘Precedent in English and Continental Law’ (1934) 50 Google Scholar LQR 376.

11. I. Willock, ‘Making Law and Keeping to the Law’ [1982] Jur R 237.

12. Roberts v Kenny [1983] 1 All ER 564. See Andrews, op cit n 8 above.

13. Hicks, J., ‘The Liar Paradox in Legal Reasoning’ (1971) 29 Google Scholar CLJ 275 and The Status of Rules of Precedent (1982) 41 CLJ 162.

14. Landes, W. and Posner, R., ‘Legal Precedent: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis’ (1977) 19 Google Scholar J Law & Econ 249.

15. The best known of his periodical literature are: ‘The ratio of the ratio decidendi’ (1959) 22 MLR 597, ‘1966 and all that! Loosing the chains of precedent’ (1969) 69 Col LR 1162, ‘On the liberation of appellate judges: how not to do it’ (1972) 35 MLR 449, and ‘From principles to principles’ (1981) 97 LQR 224.

16. Stone's initial exploration of his ‘legal categories of illusory reference’ took place in the decade prior to the publication in 1946 of The Province and Function of Law, taking aspects of the law of evidence as evidence of them. Full references are given in a selected bibliography in Precedent and Law.

17. See W. Twining and D. Miers, How to do Things with Rules (1982), ch 8.

18. R. Dworkin, Law's Empire (1986).

19. R. Summers, Instrumentalism and Legal Theory (1982).

20. R. Wasserstrom, The Judicial Decision (1961). Nor does Stone refer at this stage to Hart's discussion of precedent in The Concept of Law (1961), or to J. Raz, The Authority of Law (1979), ch 10.

21. Op cit n 18 above, pp 228–238.

22. [1970] AC 1004.

23. [1932] AC 562.

24. ‘Determining the Ratio Decidendi of a case’ (1930) 40 Yale LJ 161.

25. [1968] AC 910.

26. Wagon Mound No 1 [1961] AC 388; Wagon Mound No 2 [1967] AC 617.

27. [1966] 1 WLR 1234. See A. Paterson, ‘Lord Reid's Unnoticed Legacy - A Jurisprudence of Overruling’ (1981) 1 OJLS 375.

28. Minister of Social Security v Amalgamated Engineering Union [1967] 1 AC 725.

29. [1972] AC 944.

30. [1976] AC 443.

31. Lac cit, n 2 above.

34. ‘Is Law a System of Rules?’ in R. Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (1977). See also Twining and Miers, op cit n 17 above, ch 3, and D. Walker ‘Principle and Authority as Sources of Norms’ [1982] Jur R 198.

33. From Principles to Pragmatism (1978).

34. ‘Towards Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law’ (1959) 73 HLR 1.

35. Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory (1978).

36. ‘Two Types of Substantive Reasons: The Core of a Theory of Common-Law Justification’ (1978) 63 Cornell LR 707. s: The Core of a Theory of Common-Law Justification (1978) 63 Cornell LR 707.