The structure of judicial precedent, designed over the years, had served the court well.

This, and the lack of judicial precedent, has resulted in considerable uncertainty in the scope and content of the country's laws.

Long-standing judicial precedent has held that any witness who desires protection against self-incrimination must explicitly claim that protection.

Because each term in the policy had been tested through at least two centuries of judicial precedent, the policy was extremely thorough.

Sometimes this includes further stories acting as judicial precedents.