A much better source would have been Companies House - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house/about-our-services ….
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Does this matter? Does it impact the FSI score? I don't know. Surely not material in itself. But it raises questions about sourcing and fact-checking/quality control.
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At some point I will go through the UK entry methodically. No time now - but an obvious/trivial error in the fourth line. The UK legal system is not "Anglo Saxon" and the cited source, the CIA World Factbook, does not say that.pic.twitter.com/lV3OSK6P0w
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Surely this one is irrelevant, but something has clearly gone wrong with the sourcing and review process. (Although NB the CIA is not quite right either - Scots law is not a purely common law system. I am beyond disappointed I can't trust the CIA)
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It looks like wherever the CIA Factbook says English common law, or Common Law system etc... it is translated as "Anglo Saxon", civil law is translated as "Roman"
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Yes - that’s pretty much what happened to Anglo Saxon law.
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What does it mean, this description of so many countries having "Anglo Saxon" legal systems in the FSI?
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It’s a mistake. There’s no such thing. They mean common law.
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It’s also a “tell” - nobody who’d studied law reviewed this.
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Right but its consistent throughout. Its not an individual mistake by one researcher compiling country data. What does it mean ??!
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Good question. Alex?
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