alt Hacker NewsBoth the US and UK operate under common-law systems with substantial judicial precedent. In practice, there is very little difference between the two systems.
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pixl97 • today at 2:24 PM
Unless you're in Louisiana, which has some really weird processes.
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For those of us who are outside of the US, can someone explain why we see things like a judge ordering a 7 year old without legal representation to file legal paperwork? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/lawyers-unaccompanied-...
I'm not a lawyer, but I always associated (perhaps wrongly) common law with common sense. I don't see much of the latter here.