The three most expensive jurisdictions were the U.S., U.K. and Canada, all of which use the English system of common law.

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England has had a central system of common law for centuries.

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As a result, the scope of the common-law system of judicial review has been significantly broadened.

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What interests me most about this story is the way that it shows the adaptability of the Common Law system.

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Therefore, some aspects of the common-law system have been modified.

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This sort of adaptability is one of the reasons that Hayek liked the Common Law system so much.

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Common sense and the principles of tort law in the American civil justice system are not always synonymous.

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In the federal system, severe restrictions have been imposed on the ancient writ of habeas corpus, a common law doctrine predating the U.S. Constitution by several centuries, which allows the wrongly convicted to attack their trials and verdicts.

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