The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Common Law System

There is no real tradition of setting professional advocates in the Islamic world or as far as we can turn into the Hindu world. So it's quite an unusual feature of the common law system and it makes the system work its way out through opposing arguments. When it works well, it's extremely good because each side has their own specialist who will put their own side of the argument. The judge can listen to both sides and feel at the end of the day, he or she has come to a really good understanding of the way the case can be put either way. But on the continent, even though there are professional lawyers, there's a much greater role for the judge who does a sole series