Judicial Remedies in Public Law

Judicial remedies provide individuals with the armoury required to challenge the decisions of public bodies including ministers, central government departments, local authorities, inferior courts, tribunals and non-statutory regulatory bodies. In a climate where individuals and public bodies are increasingly using judicial review and public law remedies to contest important and politically sensitive decisions, "Judicial Remedies in Public Law" provides practitioners with coverage of the situations in which judicial review is available, the range of measures that can be challenged, the ambit of remedies in public law cases and the machinery for making an application.
The author examines in detail the application of the Order 53 procedure ("Applications for Judicial Review") including the law on standing and the discretionary grounds on which the court can refuse a remedy; how to initiate proceedings for any one of the judicial remedies; alternative avenues of challenge: rights of appeal, case stated, statutory applications to quash and habeas corpus; the principles governing the availability of damages for unlawful action by public bodies; remedies available in the national courts for breaches of European Community law, and the procedure for referring questions of Community law to the European Court.