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[QUOTE="PurgatoryD, post: 1736922, member: 43498"]
Under each system, judges must interpret the law. It's certainly a much more involved process interpreting the law under the common law system. That's why it's so important that lawyers present relevant precedent at trial.

Regardless of system, most every law or set of laws contains ambiguity. Assume that a law or set of laws is written vaguely enough to be reasonably interpreted as either "A" or "B". Using common law, if judges start by using interpretation "A", then "A" will be used in future cases. But in civil law, judges can ping-pong between "A" and "B" with no regard for which interpretation earlier judges have used.

That's what I mean when I say that civil law allows for more interpretation by judges. I will give you that common law makes interpreting the law more involved and therefore more difficult. But if the lawyers are doing their jobs, then the judge's interpretation will be forced to follow precedence. That's no so under civil law.
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