Because solicitors don't get paid until the case is given permission, this provides a harsh financial incentive for them to stay
away from judicial review.
R (on the application of Torbay Quality Care Forum Ltd) v Torbay Council [2017] EWCA Civ 1605, (2017) 20 CCL Rep 476 Successful appeal to Court of Appeal
from judicial review of local authority's decision on «usual cost» of accommodating residents in care homes, with ruling on meaning of guidance relating to relevance of top - up fees paid by privately - paying residents.
This
appeal from a judicial review decision was all about the PSNI's powers, and its understanding of its own powers, to police illegal parades in Belfast.
If you tend to view administrative decision - makers as experts and judges as amateurs, you are probably worried about overenforcement
resulting from judicial review of administrative decisions.
And in the crisis, emergency decisions were made that have been effectively
removed from judicial review, including violations of state corporate law and issues raised by the Constitution.
Even if Congress passes a law allowing the Treasury Department to have incredible discretion in reorganizing financial companies, that does not mean that the actions are
exempt from judicial review.
After a two day BC Supreme Court hearing facing counsel for two government entities and Canada's largest union, the judgment was as much in my favour as one could
expect from a judicial review.
He therefore concludes that the OMT programme can be reviewed in this preliminary ruling, also because «the alternative — namely declaring an act such as the OMT programme not actionable — would entail the risk of excluding a significant number of decisions of the
ECB from all judicial review merely on the ground that they have not been formally adopted and published in the Official Journal» (at 89).
The issue was whether the judiciary could address the constitutionality of laws put under the Ninth Schedule of the constitution, holding that they can not be granted blanket
immunity from judicial review.
[2014] EWCH 2089 (Admin)-RRB- and interlocutory issues of disclosure, permission to lead expert and further factual evidence
arising from judicial review proceedings;
On the question of the privative clause, the Court held that the chambers judge erred in holding that the clause insulates all decisions of the Appeal
Committee from judicial review except with respect to jurisdiction.
The Court of Appeal also addressed the issue of whether a privative clause that on its face purports to insulate all aspects of an administrative decision
from judicial review does, in fact, oust the jurisdiction of the court.
Sara Ogilvie, policy officer, Liberty, described the result as «an immense disappointment», and pointed out that those who
benefit from judicial review include «individuals in care, victims of police brutality [and] groups concerned with issues as diverse as HS2».
We are struggling to reconcile parliamentary sovereignty, which suggests giving effect to legislative attempts to insulate administrative decision -
makers from judicial review, and the Rule of Law, which, as Dicey himself suggested, requires courts of justice to apply the law.
The amici also claim that commitment of certain CAMELS components to agency discretion (e.g., the Capital component, committed to agency discretion pursuant to 12 U.S.C. Section 3907 (a)(2), as noted in this blog's prior post on this matter) would not foreclose other
components from judicial review, as noted by the Seventh Circuit in the case at hand.
R (on the application of C) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2017] UKSC 72, [2017] 1 WLR 4127 Successfully resisted appeal to Supreme
Court from judicial review of DWP policies re protection of sensitive personal data including that of transgender customers.
As the initial
feedback from the judicial review application indicated, the policy that EPCs could be no less than three months old at first inclusion does not fall into line with European legislation.
Section 33 allows Parliament and provincial legislatures to immunize
legislation from judicial review and invalidation under sections 2 and 7 to 15 of the Charter — provisions protecting, among other things, the freedoms of religion and expression, the due process rights of the accused in criminal cases, and most equality rights.
The Committee acknowledges that this approach «is not without constitutional costs», noting, for instance, that it would shield retained direct EU law from strike - down on HRA grounds (something that is already anticipated by the Bill) and
from judicial review on common law grounds.