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Excited to see an advance version piece - using public policy ideas to rethink JR - up online now. academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...

It’s part of a bigger project so if interested to discuss please drop me a line. (Or pass on to anyone you think might have an interest!)
Judicial Review and Good Administration: Refining the Public Interest Model of Judicial Intervention
Abstract. While UK judicial review is comparatively under-theorised, the literature has been catching up, with numerous theoretical underpinnings now ident
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November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Any politicians concerned about JR undermining government can allay their concern by spending a day reading new Admin Court judgments - it’s just relentless appeals against extradition and professional misconduct decisions.
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
JR bingo here! Nearly a full house!
Really important High Court decision today, quashing a local authority’s council tax reduction scheme. The judgment contains many lessons about these schemes. Trafford's scheme was ultra vires, irrational, and unlawfully discriminatory, and breached the PSED @rightsnet.org.uk @nawra.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’m yet to be convinced that ‘leaving stuff’ constitutes a coherent and sufficient policy package. It seems some differ, including those who ought to know better.
September 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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August 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
90% of prisoners are locally born, wld be another way of putting it.
THE TIMES: 1 in 8 of all prisoners were born overseas #TomorrowsPapersToday
August 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It’s the bit where McSweeney scrawls ‘let Starmer be Starmer’ on a napkin, and then everything’s grand.
July 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It would be a better world if reporting on the Supreme Court trans decision could avoid suggesting that the court has some magic power to define words in general. How long would it take to say ‘in the Equality Act’?
April 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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New post | The principle of legality and heightened-scrutiny rationality review: The Supreme Court’s judgment in the Spitalfields case publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/03/28/t...
The principle of legality and heightened-scrutiny rationality review: The Supreme Court’s judgment in the Spitalfields case
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Chamberlain J’s judgment in KP v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs [2025] EWHC 370, welcoming the subtle and structured appro…
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March 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM