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This “nice constitution” or Magna Carta of 1215 additionally required that the King’s entourage of judges hold their courts and judgments at “a certain place” quite than dispensing autocratic justice in unpredictable locations in regards to the nation. A concentrated and elite group of judges acquired a dominant function in law-making underneath this method, and in comparison with its European counterparts the English judiciary turned extremely centralised. In 1297, for instance, while the best courtroom in France had fifty-one judges, the English Court of Common Pleas had five. This highly effective and tight-knit judiciary gave rise to a systematised strategy…