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In England and Wales, lawyer is used loosely to refer to a broad variety of law-trained persons. Some countries
like the United Kingdom, have no entrenched document setting out fundamental rights; in those jurisdictions the
constitution is composed of statute, case law and convention. Constitutional law provides a framework for the
creation of law, the protection of human rights and the election of political representatives. A trustee has many
rights and responsibilities; these vary from trust to trust depending on the type of the trust.
A person who suffers legal damage may be able to use tort law to receive compensation from someone who is legally
responsible, or liable, for those injuries. It is distinguished from public
international law because it governs conflicts between private persons, rather than states or other international
bodies with standing. The rule of law has been considered as one of the key dimensions that determines the
quality and good governance of a country. Law codes are usually created by a legislature's enactment of a new
statute that embodies all the old statutes relating to the subject and including changes necessitated by court
decisions. For example, in most jurisdictions, decisions by appellate courts are binding on lower courts in the
same jurisdiction and on future decisions of the same appellate court, but decisions of lower courts are only
non-binding persuasive authority. Interactions between common law, constitutional law, statutory law and regulatory
law also give rise to considerable complexity.
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