Judicial Review in UK Law
-
Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service
“
Judicial review has I think developed to a stage today when without reiterating any analysis of the steps by which the development has come about, one can conviently classify under three heads the grounds upon which administrative action is subject to control by judicial review. The first ground I would call "illegality," the second "irrationality" and the third "procedural impropriety."
By "irrationality" I mean what can by now be succinctly referred to as "Wednesbury unreasonableness" ( Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 K.B. 223). It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it.
-
R (Daly) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
“
First, the doctrine of proportionality may require the reviewing court to assess the balance which the decision maker has struck, not merely whether it is within the range of rational or reasonable decisions. Secondly, the proportionality test may go further than the traditional grounds of review inasmuch as it may require attention to be directed to the relative weight accorded to interests and considerations.
-
Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service
“
My Lords, I would wish to add a few, very few, words on the reviewability of the exercise of the royal prerogative.
Before considering the rival submissions in more detail, it will be convenient to make some general observations about the process now known as judicial review. Today it is perhaps commonplace to observe that as a result of a series of judicial decisions since about 1950 both in this House and in the Court of Appeal there has been a dramatic and indeed a radical change in the scope of judicial review. That change has been described — by no means critically — as an upsurge of judicial activism.
-
Chief Constable of the North Wales Police v Evans
“
I turn secondly to the proper purpose of the remedy of judicial review, what it is and what it is not. His was a dissenting judgment but the dissent was not concerned with this point. Judicial review is concerned, not with the decision, but with the decision-making process. Unless that restriction on the power of the court is observed, the court will in my view, under the guise of preventing the abuse of power, be itself guilty of usurping power.
-
Ex parte Preston (pet. all.)
“
My fourth proposition is that a remedy by way of judicial review is not to be made available where an alternative remedy exists. This is a proposition of great importance. Judicial review is a collateral challenge: it is not an appeal. Where Parliament has provided by statute appeal procedures, as in the taxing statutes, it will only be very rarely that the courts will allow the collateral process of judicial review to be used to attack an appealable decision.
- Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022
- The Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) (Judicial Review) (England and Wales) Fees (Amendment) Order 2014
- Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 Amendment) (Withdrawal of Agents and Judicial Review) 2017
-
Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015
...... and powers of courts and tribunals; to make provision about judicial review; and for connected purposes. . [12th February 2015] . . Be it ......
- Judicial Review: Recent Trends
-
The Theoretical Controversy Concerning Judicial Review
Book reviewed in this article: Christopher Forsyth (ed), Judicial Review and the Constitution
- Book Review: Judicial Review Redux
- Judicial Review Of Legislative Policy
- High Court Reconvenes In Landmark Judicial Review
-
General Election 2019: Judicial Review Reform for Brexit Britain?
The Conservative Manifesto 2019 includes a promise of judicial review reform. This blog discusses why the Conservative Party has included this pledge and what this could mean for Planning.
- TAN Granted Permission For Judicial Review Of RIS2 Decision
- UK Government Faces Judicial Review Challenge Over Net Zero Strategy
-
Judicial review, acknowledgment of service
Immigration and Asylum Chamber (Upper Tribunal) forms including the judicial review form.
-
Judicial review claim form (Planning Court)
Planning Court forms including the statutory review claim form.
-
Judicial review acknowledgment of service
Forms relating to matters raised in the Administrative Court, including challenges to decisions made by organisations such as local authorities and regulators.
-
Judicial review acknowledgment of service (Planning Court)
Planning Court forms including the statutory review claim form.