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 | | In France, the jurisprudence constante of the Cour de cassation (for civil and penal cases) or the Conseil d'État (for administrative cases) is in practice equivalent to case law, and is of considerable import in certain domains such as labor law or administrative law. |
 | | In particular, the Conseil d'État and the Constitutional Council have distinguished "fundamental principles" that statutes and regulations must follow, even when those principles were not explicitly written in statutes. |
 | | A famous example of this evolution in jurisprudence was by Lord Denning, first of the High Court of Justice, later of the Court of Appeal in his development of the concept of estoppel starting in the world renowned High Trees case: Central London Property Trust Ltd v. |
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