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The Institute for Government has published a report on the ongoing consultation and discourse into reforming judicial review

The Ministry of Justice has published the government’s response to the Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL).

Lawyers have urged caution on proposals to reform judicial review, following the publication of former Conservative minister Lord Faulks QC’s 195-page report

With judicial review under scrutiny from the Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL), Michael Zander examines the responses of the many professional and public bodies, research organisations and practitioners, who overwhelmingly declared there is no case for legislative reform of judicial review.

Michael Zander on the Faulks Review: will it end as a government stitch-up?

The House of Lords Library has updated its briefing examining judicial review

Jessica Learmond-Criqui examines the ongoing legal challenge to the government’s decision making process in relation to the UK’s 5G developing network

Does judicial review strike the right balance between citizen and government, as the Independent Review of Administrative Law seeks to discover?

Michael Zander on what the authors of De Smith have told the Government’s inquiry

The Law Society has said it does not believe there is a need for fundamental reform of judicial review, in its response to Lord Faulks’s independent review of administrative law (bit.ly/2HGUemT).

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Judicial review

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Cripps—Radius Law

Switalskis—Grimsby

Slater Heelis—Will Newman & Lucy Spilsbury