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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Germany – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 10 Rhagfyr 1947.

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Photo of Sir Walter Fletcher Sir Walter Fletcher , Bury 12:00, 10 Rhagfyr 1947

Would not the right hon. Gentleman agree that this can only be handled by long-term education, and that it is no good trying to pass Bills or Laws, or enforcing these things on a short-term basis?

Bills

A proposal for new legislation that is debated by Parliament.

laws

Laws are the rules by which a country is governed. Britain has a long history of law making and the laws of this country can be divided into three types:- 1) Statute Laws are the laws that have been made by Parliament. 2) Case Law is law that has been established from cases tried in the courts - the laws arise from test cases. The result of the test case creates a precedent on which future cases are judged. 3) Common Law is a part of English Law, which has not come from Parliament. It consists of rules of law which have developed from customs or judgements made in courts over hundreds of years. For example until 1861 Parliament had never passed a law saying that murder was an offence. From the earliest times courts had judged that murder was a crime so there was no need to make a law.