/dih-pahrt fruhm/ – verb
Definition: Không tuân theo, không tuân thủ.
A more thorough explanation: 1. for a court to not apply a usually or previously held rule
2,for a court to overturn or overrule a precedent without expressly stating so; the term is more often used when referring to persuasive authority rather than binding authority
Example: 1. Section 51 confers discretion on the Supreme Court of the province to depart from the rule of equal division of family assets.
2. The Chief Justice sounded a note of caution, affirming the importance of certainty in the law and making it clear that the power of the Court of Final Appeal to depart from previous decisions would be exercised ‘most sparingly’.