ABSTRACT
The average court system is seen generally as being a rigidly structured, hierarchical framework, with layers of jurisdictions rising in pyramidal fashion to an apex where a highest court in the land surveys the lower rungs of juridical work to ensure a correct and just application of the law. Errors are presumably eradicated by courts of appeal, binding guidelines are set by courts in the higher echelons of the judicial system, and the lower courts conduct their daily legal confrontations in terms of either a clear statement in legislation or an interpreted precedent of litigation.
