the degree of adherence to strict stare decisis by the English courts cannot be measured only by their unwillingness to
overrule their own prior cases.It is reflected more pervasively in their reluctance to distinguish prior cases factually, or to
find conflict among precedent cases or to perceive and exploit ambiguity in the reasoning offered by a court in a prior case.
A court could call itself bound by its prior decisions but then rarely locate any decision found to be applicable and controlling.
The English courts have not done this.The method generally followed has been affirmatively to seek out precedent and apply
it,and if no cases are found squarely point, to apply the nearest ones available. The law of today is narrowly confmedlouie
''results of past decisions,extended forward slowly and only within prescribed limits.New inputs of policy are not left to the
courts. They are the province of other branches of government.