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Quote of the Day: “The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasisovereign that can be identified.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States) 

Quote of the Day: "The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasisovereign that can be identified." Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)

Quote of the Day: “The Common Law of England has very laboriously been built about a mythical figure of ‘the reasonable man’. An Act of God has been defined as ‘something which no reasonable man could have expected.” A. P. Herbert

Quote of the Day: "The Common Law of England has very laboriously been built about a mythical figure of 'the reasonable man'. An Act of God has been defined as 'something which no reasonable man could have expected." A. P. Herbert

What is a “prima facie” case? A (very) brief explanation 

On 24 January 2022, the High Court of Malaya ruled that a "prima facie" case had been established against Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia (DPM). So what is a "prima facie" case? This is (very) a brief explanation. Cambridge Dictionary defines "prima facie" as: "adjective, based on what seems to … Continue reading What is a “prima facie” case? A (very) brief explanation