Judicial Review in UK Law
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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.
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Law firm can go ahead with Legal Ombudsman judicial review
A law firm has won permission to judicially review a decision by the Legal Ombudsman to award a former client £66,000 in compensation and refunded or waived legal fees. The post Law firm can ...
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UK Judicial review ruling: Tavistock gender identify development service + puberty supressing drugs.
Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHE Foundation Trust & Ors [2020] EWHC 3274 (Admin), available online, is a three judge decision on a claim for judicial review of the practice of the defendant, the Ta...
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(UK) Judicial Review of Planning Decisions – Shorter Window for Applicants
This post was written by Julia Berry. Some good news for developers frustrated at planning delays caused by waiting for the Judicial Review (‘JR’) period to expire – amendments to the Civil Procedu...
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And so begins the Government’s Review of Judicial Review…
The Government’s launch of its review of administrative law last week is significant with potentially wide ranging consequences for judicial review. In this blog we discuss the details of this revi...
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EVisa judicial review dismissed but court acknowledges real hardship from digital-only status
The High Court has dismissed the judicial review challenge to the Home Office’s eVisa policy in BSC & Anor v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026] EWHC 705 (Admin). We have covered ...
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Further consultation on Judicial Review reform - implications for Planning law claims
The Government has published its response to the Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL) that was launched in July 2020, which examined whether there is a need for reform of judicial review...
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Refusal of judicial review of sale of Green Investment Bank
The UK Government’s decision to sell the Green Investment Bank Plc (the GIB) to a consortium led by Macquarie should not be subject to judicial review, the High Court has ruled in R (SDC LLP) v Sec...
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Fair’s fair: Supreme Court clarifies law on unfairness and equal treatment in judicial review
In R (oao Gallaher and others) v CMA [2018] UKSC 25, handed down last week, the Supreme Court has clarified that substantive unfairness is not an established ground of judicial review and that like...
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