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Book review: Judicial Review Handbook (Sixth edition)

24 May 2013
Issue: 7561 / Categories: Features
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"To say that the handbook is indispensable is merely to repeat what we all know"

Author: Michael Fordham QC
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781849461597
Price: £125

Michael Fordham QC may well be an iconoclast at heart, but it will surely be no disappointment to him that his Judicial Review Handbook has become part of the orthodoxy. It is of itself an establishment figure, to be found right next to the White Book on the benches of the Administrative Courts and the desks of all serious judicial review practitioners.

To say that the handbook is indispensable is merely to repeat what we all know; its central role in administrative law is subject of the very highest authorities, from the Supreme Court and the Privy Council. But what can we say for the sixth edition?

It is self-evident that a book such as this is utterly reliant on its comprehensiveness and currency. Fordham’s self-imposed task of surveying the whole gamut of judicial review cases is a mammoth task, and one that he still undertakes single-handedly. It is

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