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I wonder how true this is, we have the same system in Sweden, that court judgement are not legally binding precedent for lower courts. But in practice lower courts will follow the rulings made by the high court.

Is it not the same in Spain at all?

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It's the same in Spain, which makes OPs proposal kind of useless. The big distinction between a civil and a common law system is the fundamentals. A country's civil code is properly defined, while a common law's system is based on previous cases you have to dig through to find the basics.

> while a common law's system is based on previous cases you have to dig through to find the basics

In other words, you have to hire a lawyer. They really built a great system for themselves, didn't they?

Would be nice if someone did it with Swedens laws too!

I built it with Claude Code last summer :) Check it out: https://github.com/se-lex/sfs

It’s generated by this CLI: https://github.com/se-lex/sfs-processor (md with temporal tags, html or Git commits as output format)

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