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This “nice constitution” or Magna Carta of 1215 additionally required that the King’s entourage of judges maintain their courts and judgments at “a certain place” rather than dishing out autocratic justice in unpredictable locations in regards to the country. A concentrated and elite group of judges acquired a dominant role in law-making underneath this method, and compared to its European counterparts the English judiciary became extremely centralised. In 1297, as an example, while the highest court docket in France had fifty-one judges, the English Court of Common Pleas had five. This powerful and tight-knit judiciary gave rise to a systematised …