The Role of Judicial precedent in Criminal Legislation

The hypothesis of this article is that judicial precedent in Criminal Legislation has higher level than sub- source. The meaning of judicial precedent is movement of amount of judicial decision that they are indicated the Supreme Court decision as a unified judicial precedent or total or partial unity of courts decisions in certain issues. In traditional approach, judicial precedent is source based not rule based. In that approach, judicial precedent is source for judgment and legal analysis, but in our approach, judicial precedent is source for legislation. In new approach, judicial precedent has strong bond with famous principles of law such as custom, social culture and norms that takes requirements from one place and presents them to law makers, by regarding necessity and elitism. In this article, we examined several Supreme Court decisions and judicial proceeding and tried to show that judicial precedent has a powerful role in Iran legal system on criminal legislation. Achievement of article is based on this consumption that Judicial precedent has a “didactic”, “re- educative",” re- instructive" and " pioneer" role. It is necessary to make a policy and interaction to evaluate and connect legislation and judicial precedent more efficiently: Interaction based on following judicial precedent from legislation and following legislation from judicial precedent.