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Rule of Law - - modern definition comes from work by Dicey in 1885 - equal responsibility and protection under rule of law, meaning equal for all members - gvmts should also be restrained by the rule of law - laws have to be prospective (apply from when they're passed onwards), publicly promulgated (available to the public) and universal How can we tell how much rule of law there is in a given country? - - judicial rates, equality of litigants is seriously compromised What makes rule of law desireable? - - purported link between rule of law and justice, social predictability is liked by both parties - often seen as the main reason citizens for joining a state - greater likelihood that fundamental rights will be respected - facilitates economic dev. True or false: Civil law is built on codification - TRUE, all the laws that legislation produces are codified in statutes, by substantive (whats legal and illegal) or procedural laws (how evidence is collected, procedures in which cases move through the legal system).