In August, I posted on an interesting and potentially very important United Kingdom Supreme Court decision on appellate standards of review. In R (AR) v Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police [2018] UKSC 48, Lord Carnwath concluded for a unanimous court that in an appeal from an application by the High Court of the proportionality […] Read more
On Saturday, October 20, the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge, is hosting a symposium on the Privacy International litigation. Those interested in attending should email me. Contributors will also be writing short blog posts summarising their presentations, for the Administrative Law in the Common Law World blog. As regular readers will […] Read more
Under the “Carltona principle”, decisions taken in reality by civil servants in a government department are treated in law as decisions of the responsible minister, such that where a statute provides for decisions to be made by a “minister” it is lawful for a civil servant to take them in the minister’s stead (see here […] Read more
Back in 2012 I posted about a paper by Sean Rehaag which identified “wild variations in the treatment of leave and judicial review applications by different Federal Court judges”. Reforms to the leave and judicial review process followed. Professor Rehaag has now returned with a new study, “Revisiting the Luck of the Draw“, covering an […] Read more