It is not always easy to identify the ratio decidendi of a given case.

It is 2 which amounts to the ratio decidendi of the case.

The ratio decidendi is one of the most powerful tools available to a lawyer.

Too much emphasis on the search for the ratio decidendi of cases can be misleading.

The ratio decidendi, or legal point in the case which determined the judgment, was a narrow one.

Their ratio decidendi is, it stops a community from coming together as a cohesive whole.

The ratio decidendi of the case was based on narrower technical grounds.

This case used a wide ratio decidendi, which was held later as obiter, but still established the law of tort.

The ruling does not contain a ratio decidendi in the style of common-law jurisdictions.

Not every statement made in the course of a judgment is binding as part of the ratio decidendi of the case.

The ratio decidendi of Donoghue v. Stevenson is open to two interpretations.

What was the ratio decidendi of Pinnel's Case?

Ratio decidendi also involves the holding of a particular case, thereby allowing future cases to build upon such cases by citing precedent.

This will reveal the reason for the decision, known among lawyers as the 'ratio decidendi'(reason for deciding) of the case.

Lawyers rely primarily on close analysis of the wording contained within the judgment to seek out the ratio decidendi (reason for deciding).

Attempts have been made to offer formulae for determining the ratio decidendi of cases, but few have proved to be really satisfactory.

The question arose after Donoghue v. Stevenson as to how broadly the ratio decidendi could be interpreted.

The relevant passages formed part of the Court of Appeal's ratio decidendi and the case cannot sensibly be distinguished.

This case reduces them to a single principle, the 'neighbour principle', which emerges as part of the ratio decidendi of the case.

It is arguable that the ratio decidendi of the case is limited solely to this principle, and cannot be extended so as to include the neighbour principle.

I have some hesitation about accepting the second leg of the ratio decidendi in the circumstances but that is certainly the way in which Fox L.J.

There is debate as to whether Canada Trustco was more in the nature of dicta, whereas Fraser dealt with the reversal of ratio decidendi.

Despite the fact that a Privy Council ratio decidendi is only persuasive authority, the Court of Appeal applied it and reinstated the law before Smith.

Unlike obiter dicta, the ratio decidendi is, as a general rule, binding on courts of lower and later jurisdiction-through the doctrine of stare decisis.

In his ratio decidendi Knox CJ expanded the definitions in s.51(v) to future development, a view shared by Higgins J.