Doctrine of Stare Decisis

In fact, the term of Doctrine is a codification of beliefs, taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system. By the way, the term of “Stare decisis’ is the legal principle by which judges are obliged to obey the precedents established by prior decisions. The doctrines that holding have binding precedential value is not valid within most civil law jurisdictions as it is argued that this principle interference with the right of judges to interpret law and the right of the legislature to make law.

Other than that, the vertical stare decisis refer to a judge is bound by decisions of judges made at superior courts. Whereas, the horizontal stare decisis refers to a judge is bound by decisions of earlier judges of coordinate level.

The advantages doctrine of stare decisis translated it mean let the decision stand, advantages is “you were innocent”, whereas, the disadvantages is “you were guilty”.

What do you think? (Ryan Case)

In the case of Ryan, the story is about Ryan driving his car to Georgetown and talked with his wife without using hands-free. In the consequence, he lost control and hit a walking pedestrian. In my opinion, Ryan should under civil law case. According definition from Wikipedia, there is the branch of law dealing with disputes between individuals or organizations, in which compensation may be awarded to the victim. He will be on civil court and Ryan as a defendant, he may be found liable or not liable. In my view point, the pedestrian loss is depend how actually damage.

By the way, In the case of Geena, she runs an unregistered online investment portal from her home in KL where she managed to get people deposit money to her account. Yet, it was discovered that the investment was a scam and she try to flee with the money, only to arrested in the airport by immigration officers because she held a fake passport. In my opinion, it is liable criminal law. Criminal law is distinctive for the uniquely serious potential consequences or for failure to abide by its rules.

Agreement and contract

Actually, the agreement includes contract and non-contract. Agreement happens when a word change and depending on the word it relate. Other than that, when surfing the net, I found that there have “gentlemen’s agreement” which is an informal agreement between two or more parties. Next, the contract is legal sense to an agreement of two or more parties that is legally binding between them. (However, it still a bit confuse the definition for both of this term) L

Then, the explanation and example of unilateral offer from lecturer is the computer have got problem, then he offer to those who can success to repair it and reward is RM 500 (woooh..Seems attractive the reward, hehe…) :p

What is law in my mind? (Aiya, just follow law lar..) :p

Before released and set the law, I think in my mind, what are the criteria to determine the law of behavior of human is right or wrong? (do not care, as long as it is benefit to each parties, haha…)

When start first week of lecture class, the business law lecturer shows us about part of the video which title is “just follow law”. Actually this movie I have seen before, but still fell that it was funny and awesome. It also INDERECTLY tell me that the Singaporean attitude just follow law which is everything must black and white. Anyway, I this reality world, only the “black and white” is the safety way to let us “survive” :p