selective prospectivity

selective prospectivity. A court’s decision to apply a new rule of law in the particular case in which the new rule is announced, but to apply the old rule in all other cases pending at the time the new rule is announced or in which the facts predate the new rule’s announcement. [Cases: Courts 100(1).C.J.S. Courts §§ 147–148.]

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译者Stanley，毕业于法国顶尖的高级翻译学院，擅长翻译各种与数据保护与网络安全相关的法律文件。