FCC ruling on SC precedents triggers debate

FCC ruling on SC precedents triggers debate

A fresh constitutional debate gathers pace over the Federal Constitutional Court's (FCC) recent ruling that earlier Supreme Court decisions are not unconditionally binding on it, bringing the traditional doctrine of stare decisis into question. The ruling has opened a new front in legal discourse, with jurists parsing its implications for precedent, hierarchy and institutional balance in what increasingly appears to be a dual-court system at the…