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skew-aberrationtoday at 12:09 AM1 replyview on HN

Such systems do exist in 'civil law' (vs common law) countries (which are most of them outside the English-speaking world).


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C-x_C-ftoday at 3:24 AM

Yes, although they don't really obviate the issues raised by GP (costs, length, complexity).

If anything, some of the largest civil law countries in Europe, like Germany and Italy, can arguably be considered worse than common law countries in all of these respects. Whether that's incidental or due to civil law, I cannot say.