UK Constitutional Law Association

Tag: Basis of judicial review

  • Mark Elliott: Justification, Calibration and Substantive Judicial Review: Putting Doctrine in its Place

    To observe that substantive judicial review—and the notions of proportionality and deference in particular—constitute well-trodden ground would be to engage in reckless understatement. And that, in turn, might suggest that there is nothing more that can usefully be said about these matters. Yet the debate in this area of public law remains vibrant—and for good…

  • Paul Daly: Taking Statutes Seriously

    Drawing on English, American and Canadian material, I develop in A Theory of Deference in Administrative Law: Basis, Application and Scope (CUP, 2012) a unique approach to judicial review of administrative action. Animated by a desire to inspire change rather than wholesale implantation, I elaborate a comprehensive theoretical approach which is not tied to any…