Resources

Literature Review on the Use and Impact of Litigation

Strategic legal action is a promising, potential tool for driving change in the systems that perpetuate severe and multiple disadvantage. Yet it can also be costly, risky, time consuming and, under certain circumstances, counterproductive.

Public Law and Clinical Legal Environments

University law clinics are a developing tool for both legal skills-based education and academic education. As well as providing students with experience of law in action and a practical base for academic enquiry, law clinics are, and should be supported as, an important means of providing practical legal work experience; especially where they can provide experience of working with clients who face social problems that many students may never face themselves.

European Union (Withdrawal) Bill Briefing for House of Commons Second Reading

Ahead of the Second Reading of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill on Thursday 07th September, PLP has prepared a briefing paper for Members highlighting our key concerns with the Bill.

PLP Impact Report and Five Year Review 2012 to 2016

The report uses illustrative case studies and data analysis to summarise and explain:



PLP's Legal Aid Support Project (LASP); Casework in welfare benefits, community care, and the Special Immigration and Appeal's Commission (SIAC); PLP's Justice First Fellows; Research and policy work; Training, conferences, resources, guides and publications ... and the PLP community!



The report finishes with a summary of our recent strategic review and its results;



a re-articulation of our vision, mission and priorities more suited to current challenges.mission and priorities.

Applications to the Attorney-General and s13 of the Coroners Act 1988

There are essentially two ways in which a person may challenge the sufficiency of inquest proceedings or a decision by a coroner not to hold an inquest at all. The first and most obvious is by way of judicial review proceedings. The second is by way of a s13 application under the Coroners Act 1988.This paper will briefly consider the law and procedure pertaining to applications to the Attorney-General for a fiat and applications to the High Court pursuant to s13 of the Coroners Act 1988.

Public law and the Investigatory Powers Bill

The investigatory Powers Bill (IPB) provides a legal framework to UK state surveillance, purporting to balance personal privacy with the needs of state to provide security and prevent fraud and terrorism. The panellists disucss the public law issues arising from the so called ‘snoopers charter’.

Opening address to PLP's 2016 conference

The next six years marks out the most ambitious period of change since the Judicature Acts of the 1870s. The aim that the Lord Chief Justice and I have agreed with the Lord Chancellor is quite simply to strengthen the rule of law. The reform programme that was announced this last month is a breathtaking £1bn investment project.

Top Public Law Cases of the Year 2016

The number and diversity of JR cases is now such that a review of the year can only hope to cover a small sample of the Administrative Court’s workload. The selection of cases here (from September 2015 to August 2016) necessarily reflects our personal choice, and no doubt there are many others that could have been included. We have each picked three cases. They are summarised in chronological order.

How to Apply for Legal Aid Funding for Judicial Review

This guide is intended for practitioners who do not apply for judicial review funding on a regular basis, or who could do with some clarification on aspects of the criteria.

By Public Demand! Inquiries, Investigations and the Law reading list

There was so much background reading and watching referenced in our 'By Public Demand! Inquiries, Investigations and the Law' conference on 21st April 2016 that we asked contributors to recommend follow up reading and watching.

Top Public Law Cases of the Year 2016 (July)

These are a set of slides to accompany a presentation by Emma Dowden-Teale, Bates Wells Braithwaite & Rhiannon Jones, Lester Morrill Solicitors for PLP's North conferecne, 14 July 2016.

Public law in public spaces

In the last 20 years or so Parliament has provided a rash of purportedly civil remedies to address various types of nuisance or anti-social behaviour. This began with housing ASB injunctions under the Housing Act 1996 which were significantly extended by the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003, the ASBO of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 which whilst originally a stand alone civil remedy became most used after sentencing from criminal offences that constituted such behaviour, to follow have been gang related violence (and now drug dealing) injunctions and there have been or are a number of others such as football banning orders.

Investigating the Investigators

This paper considers the opportunities for legal redress under the Human Rights Act 1998 (“HRA”) where police fail to carry out their investigative responsibilities. The main focus is on the claims available to victims of serious crimes against the person. However, I also examine briefly the position of those accused of crimes who experience delay in their exoneration as a result of incompetent investigation.

Investigating the NHS and Defending Patient Safety

Mid-Staffordshire, Morecambe Bay, Winterbourne View, Southern Health. Sadly the NHS is far from immune from preventable deaths, individual and systemic abuse, and deficient investigations into its own failings. The need for effective systems that will prevent death and serious harm, protective duties that require staff to take operational measures to protect those in their care, and robust, searching investigations into deaths and incidents of mistreatment are needed in healthcare and clinical settings now more than ever.

Evidence of the Public Law Project to the Labour Review of Legal Aid

Evidence of the Public Law Project to the Labour Review of Legal Aid.We welcome the opportunity to provide written evidence to the Bach Commission. The evidence sets out our direct experience of the impact of the LASPO cuts, and the conclusions that we are able to draw from that experience.

THE LEGAL BASIS OF THE DUTY TO INVESTIGATE (2)

The “duty” on the State to conduct an investigation into events of significant public concern or interest is not in fact a single duty, but incorporates some duties, and a wide range of powers, derived from common law, statutory and international law sources, which can often overlap in the same case. This is one of two papers by Henrietta Hill QC and Adam Straw presented as part of PLP's 'By Public Demand: Inquiries, Investigations and the Law confercne in April 2016.

Making the Ombudsman Effective

These are the notes to a seminar on the role of the Ombudsman, looking particularly at the PHSO.

Lions under the Throne

Sir Stephen Sedley and Cambridge University Press (CUP) have allowed us to publish the introduction to Lions under the Throne, Essays on the History of English Public Law. The first part of this chapter sketches the early growth of English public law. The second part tries to describe what it was like to be involved in the modern take-off of public law as it roused itself from its long sleep.

Why Henry VIII Clauses Should be Consigned to the Dustbin of History

Henry VIII clauses by which Acts of Parliament may be changed by delegated legislation are a constitutional anomaly. They are derived from a time when the Crown exercised absolute power.
In the modern age they have the potential to subvert the sovereignty of parliament and substitute executive tyranny.

Article 14: Discrimination in State Benefit Cases

There are no enforceable economic, social or cultural rights in the UK. Although the UK has ratified ICESCR it has not been incorporated into domestic law and the ECHR is of course primarily concerned with civil and political rights. Therefore it is generally uncontroversial that there are no rights to state benefits or social security in the UK. The attempts that have been made to infer such rights under ECHR have largely failed.

The Relationship Between Litigation and Policy: The Chagossian Islanders Litigation (1982 - )

This paper presentation will cover which acts of Government have been challenged, changes to Government policy and its stance during and after litigation. It will also look at the feasibility studies, the current Supreme Court case and what the new decision means.

Judicial Review and the Rule of Law: An Introduction To The Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, Part 4

The result of a collaborative project with The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and The Public Law Project, this work aims to provide an introduction to the latest changes to judicial review practice and procedure. Setting the latest changes from Parliament in their constitutional context, we hope that our work will help inform the Act’s interpretation and its early application.

Top Public Law Cases of the Year

The number and diversity of JR cases is now such that a review of the year can only hope to cover a small sample of the Administrative Court’s workload. The selection of cases below (from September 2014 to July 2015) necessarily reflects our personal choice, and no doubt there are many others that could have been included. We have each picked four cases. They are summarised below in chronological order.

Future proofing: Running human rights arguments under the common law

There have been lots of exciting things going on in the courts recently regarding the constitution and fundamental rights. Michael Fordham QC has delivered an overview of these changes in his earlier talk. This seminar aims to fill in the detail. It outlines the recent changes and argues that there is as yet no certainty that a repeal of the HRA will make no difference. It gives suggestions for what may be done now to try to enhance the protection of fundamental rights by the common law and to safeguard your cases from the potential repeal of the Human Rights Act.

Parliamentary Vandalism and New Human Rights

The Value and Effects of Judicial Review

The process through which legal redress may be obtained against public authorities is often criticised as being politicised, of little value to claimants, and burdensome on public bodies. Based on the largest empirical study of judicial review outcomes to date, Varda Bondy, Lucinda Platt and Maurice Sunkin explain how the process can actually benefit claimants, and improve policy and practice.

Private law claims in immigration detention cases

This paper covers some of the key issues that arise in private law immigration detention claims, as opposed to public law claims. It is not exhaustive but aims to provide an overview of the points that lawyers bringing civil claims need to be aware of. The session is intended to be discursive and we are happy to deal with any questions or conundrums as we go along, either arising out of the areas covered below, or relating to other issues that come up in immigration detention civil claims.

The Lord Chancellor and the Rule of Law

Dinah Rose QC's keynote address to the PLP annual London conference 2014, introduced by Jonathan Swift QC.

Securing Funding from the LAA to Challenge its own Exceptional Funding Refusals

Legal aid has been removed from large areas of litigation and many vulnerable people are affected. Exceptional funding provides the only safety net. This paper explains how to challenge a refusal of exceptional funding by the LAA, and get funding for that challenge.

Judicial Review Reforms Update

This Power Point accompanies a talk Given by Zahra (with Mike Fordham QC) on Judicial Review Reforms Update. It looks at current changes, what is proiposed and what it means for practitioners.

Press Release: High Court to hear Rights of Womens legal challenge to restore access to legal aid for victims of domestic violence

On Friday 19 September the High Court will consider whether to grant permission for Rights of Women’s legal challenge of the lawfulness of Government changes to legal aid to be heard. These changes are preventing victims of domestic abuse from getting legal aid for family cases, even when it is clear there has been violence, or there is an ongoing risk of violence. Represented by the Public Law Project and supported by the Law Society, Rights of Women argue that this is not what parliament intended.

Pre-Permission Costs: Reducing the risk of non-payment

This paper and related presentation examines the anticipated impact of the new regulations which remove entitlement to payment by legal aid for costs in judicial review where either the case ends prior to permission being granted or permission is refused.

Obtaining exceptional funding under LASPO - is it worth applying?

Exceptional funding will only be available to people whose human rights or European Union rights



would be breached if they did not have legal aid. The Government intends this to be a high threshold and envisages that only a small number of cases will get exceptional funding. This paper and workshop notes examines when your case may be eligible for exceptional funding, and what you need to show to obtain it.

An Update on the Judicial Review Reforms and their Consequences

This paper and related presentation details the Judicial Review reforms of recent years, and what is currently proposed by Government. It explains what this means for practitioners.

Children and Young People in Need of Accommodation

This paper covers remedies for children in need of accommodation.

A guide to support under Section 17 Children Act 1989

The purpose of this guide is to assist voluntary organisations working with destitute migrant families to identify which families can access support from social services. The guide is intended to help advisers advocate on behalf of their clients and to know when to refer a case to a solicitor. This guide is not intended to be a substitute for specialist legal advice.

Criminal Justice & Courts Bill Part 4: Joint NGO Briefing on Judicial Review

Briefing for Peers on Part 4 of the Criminal Justice & Courts Bill, in advance of it reaching the House of Lords Committee stage.

Press Release: Public Law Project (PLP) wins residence test case. Proposals to introduce legal aid residence test are unlawful and discriminatory.

In a powerful judgment delivered today the Divisional Court has confirmed that Government proposals to introduce a “residence test” for civil legal aid are unlawful. The thrust of those proposals was to prevent those who could not prove 12 months lawful residence in the UK from accessing the legal aid scheme.

Further briefing for Parliamentarians on Judicial Review Reforms

This briefing is concerned with the proposed changes to judicial review in Part 4 of the Criminal Justice & Courts Bill. It follows on from PLP's previous briefing in March 2014.

Richard III Myths and Facts

This briefing concerns the Richard III case, used a justification for measures in Part 4 of the Criminal Justice & Courts Bill.

Press Release: The Law Society backs legal challenge by Rights of Women to restore access to legal aid for victims of domestic violence

The Law Society is supporting a challenge brought by the Public Law Project on behalf of Rights of Women, over the lawfulness of Government changes to legal aid which are preventing victims of domestic abuse from getting legal aid for family cases, even when it is clear there has been violence, or there is an ongoing risk of violence. Rights of Women argue that this is not what parliament intended.

Ombudsman remedies: creative hybrid or curates egg?

All the public sector Ombudsmen have a power to make recommendations as to how the injustice arising out of any maladministration they identify may be remedied. This paper and appendix discusses what remedies an Ombudsman complaint can secure and how to make effective us of the schemes.

Learning the lessons from the cutting edge: The Mau Mau case

The Mau Mau case made legal history in 2013 when the British Government compensated and issued an apology to 5,000 Kenyans who had been tortured whilst detained by the British colony prior to independence in 1963. This paper outlines the factual and legal issues which arose in the course of the litigation.

Claims against the police and detaining authorities: Strategies and practicalities

This paper discusses the strategies and practical issues arising at the following key points in the conduct of a ‘classic’ police law action.

Discrimination Law Damages for Public Lawyers

This paper and accompanying talk discuss the interaction between public law equality challenges and claims for damages for discrimination under the Equality Act 2010.

Discrimination Law Damages for Public Lawyers - Audio

This talk and accompanying paper discusses the interaction between public law equality challenges and claims for damages for discrimination under the Equality Act 2010.

The Number of Judicial Review Cases

Paper to support PLP's evidence to the Public Bill Committee on 13 March 2014, debunking Government assertions that the number of judicial review cases are “out of control”.

Privacy and Data Protection: The Legal Framework

Obtaining and disclosing information gives rise to a number of potential legal issues. In addition to possible criminal penalties, there are a number of civil causes of action which may be available to those who feel their private or personal information has been unlawfully obtained, stored, or used. This paper discusses these causes of action.

Common law remedies

This talk examines the range of remedies available in private law claims as well as analysing the principles and practice of the quantification of damages.

Private law and public law procedural issues and differences

The law and practice around choosing the correct forum.

Special educational needs disputes and mediation

This paper aims to give a general overview of the use of mediation in the context of challenges against local authority decisions by parents of children with special educational needs (SEN). It briefly describes the main external mechanisms (as opposed to internal complaints procedures) for resolving or determining SEN disputes.

Private law claims against public authorities

The aim of this paper is to look at the torts of misfeasance in public office and negligence, and why they offer only limited redress against public authorities.

The Basics of Tribunal Representation

A short guide to the basics of representation at Tribunals.

Sir Henry Brooke's opening address to PLP's Private Law for Public Law Practitioners conference

Sir Henry Brooke's opening address to our Public Law for Private Law Practitioners conference, 4 March 2014. The address looks at how Public Law has evolved and diversified away from private law in recent decades.

Briefing for CSOs and concerned individuals on Judicial Review reforms

This short briefing has been produced in response to proposed changes to judicial review in the Criminal Justice & Courts Bill. It details why the proposals in the bill should concern all sectors of civil society, and what you can do about them. PLP has also produced an outline letter that you can personalise and send your MP.

Guide to Strategic Litigation

This guide has been produced to provide individuals and community groups with information to promote a better understanding of how to challenge decisions of public bodies. It is intended for non-lawyers, for community and voluntary sector groups and for individuals. It is not intended for litigants in person (ie those who go to court without a lawyer to assist them), and in no way replaces the need for expert legal advice. Instead, it is designed to help non-lawyers understand the judicial review process, to navigate their way through it, and to get the best out of the lawyers they will undoubtedly need.

A Year in Judicial Review 2013

There are by now so many JR cases, which cover such a broad range of topics that a talk such as this is necessarily nothing more than a personal choice, and cannot hope to be comprehensive. What is set out below is merely a few cases from 2013 which may be of general interest. There will be many others which are relevant to your particular cases and practices.

Financial Remedies Against the State

Can a coherent framework for obtaining financial redress for state wrongdoing emerge from the patchwork of EU law, ECHR law and domestic public and private law?

Ombudsman v JR

With legal aid for JR under threat, practitioners may want to consider alternatives. Ombudsman decisions themselves are amenable to JR. Representations to the Ombudsman are free, claimants don’t need a lawyer - and in a landscape in which the government appears only to be prepared to fund legal advice for itself, that’s of increasing significance.
Although there are some disadvantages to using the Ombudsman, there are also advantages, both are considered in this paper.

Public Law and the Voluntary Sector

The paper gives an introduction to the value of public law to voluntary sector organisations.

Exceptional Funding for Inquests

This presentation provides an overview of exceptional funding for inquests.

Judicial Review in Education: A case law update

This talk outlines the most interesting judicial review cases in education in the last 12 months. It addresses the following topics: School transport; GCSE examinations; Eligibility for student funding in higher education; Universities; The Office of the Independent Adjudicator; Costs in judicial review claims in the Upper Tribunal.

Inquests and public law

This presentation provides an overview of recent caselaw on the topic.

Making an Effective Complaint to a Public Body

A short guide to making an effective complaint to a public body.

An Introduction to Public Law

A short general introduction to public law.

Social Entitlement - First Tier Challenges

This paper focuses on preparation for and representation at the Social Security and Child Support First Tier Tribunal.

A Comparative Introduction to Tribunals and Public Law

This paper provides a brief introduction to the history and structure of tribunals in England and Wales and consideration of practical questions, such as: How are tribunals different from higher courts? What features are shared and what features differ, in practice? Where tribunals fit in the context of other public law remedies, and what public law issues apply across tribunal chambers?

Exceptional funding: The brave new world

This paper provides a summary overview of the exceptional funding scheme under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

Debunking the Lord Chancellor's misuse of judicial review statistics

Update on Welsh Constitutional Issues

The Government of Wales Act 2006 represents a landmark in Welsh history: formally separating the executive from the legislature in Wales, and providing a host of new powers for Welsh ministers and now, since the 2011 referendum, bringing broad primary legislative power to Wales for the first time in over 500 years.

Education Challenges in Wales

This paper looks at the opportunity for public law challenges arising from Welsh education legislation.

Challenging new infrastructure

This paper takes a practical look at the procedures for consenting new infrastructure in Wales, through the Planning Act 2008 and the Hybrid Bill procedure, and consider the potential areas for challenge (including consultation, strategic environmental assessment and habitats issues) for those opposed to such infrastructure. Through recent case studies, the paper examines the tactics and procedure for such challenges.

The Most Important Tribunal Cases of the Year

This paper reviews the most important cases of the past year, and considers their impact on case law and implications for future appellants.Review of the most important cases of the past year, consideration of their impact on case law and implications for future appellants.

Public Law Research Update Part 2

This paper discusses the impact of regionalisation on Judicial Review.

Challenges to the Decisions of the Upper Tribunal

This paper provides an overview of recent challenges to the Upper Tribunal decisions and the weight to be given to the decisions of specialist tribunals.

Closing Address: 25 years of Judicial Review

25 years of judicial review: advancements, challenges and the future

Judicial Review: The Future

What does the future hold? Will judicial review continue to expand and innovate? What dramatic new steps will future generations look back on? What cutting-edge issues should practitioners be looking out for?

A Year in Judicial Review: October 2012

A round-up of the important cases and decisions from the last twelve months.

Consultation - the impact of section 149 EA 2010

This paper provides an analysis of Section 149 of the Equality Act 2010, which imposes extensive legal duties on public authorities by requiring them to pay due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination and promote equality with regard to the various 'protected characteristics'. It looks at the impact of Section 149 on the requirement to consult, and the way in which public authority's own financial resources can bear upon the performances of the duty.

Designing redress: a study about grievances against public bodies

Public bodies have in recent years been exhorted to get decisions ‘right first time’.1 The concept of administrative justice is seen by some scholars as including initial decisions as well as what happens when administrative decisions are challenged. Notwithstanding these developments, the redress of grievances remains central to the concerns of administrative law scholars, and public bodies expend a great deal of time and money handling grievances. It is just about possible to imagine an idealised administrative system in which no errors are ever made by decision-makers and all past, present and future decisions are accepted as correct and legitimate by citizens and business enterprises. In reality, this can never be achieved (except perhaps in well-resourced administrative schemes of limited size and relative simplicity).

A Year in Judicial Review 2012

Ben McCormack and Matt Stanbury of Garden Court North Chambers give a round up of the important cases and decisions of the last twelve months. You can follow their paper to fully enjoy Matt and Ben’s clear, informative, accessible and very entertaining talk. Case analysis includes Julian Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority, costs in judicial review, and the excitingly titled section ‘Judges, politics, and public sector cuts’.

Judicial Review of the Upper Tribunal

This paper considers the latest developments relating to JR of the Upper Tribunal post-Cart and looks at what potential grounds cases might proceed upon.

Introduction to Judicial Review

This paper and presentation provide an overview of the basic principles of public law, and the processes and procedures involved in challenging public body decisions.

Court of Protection: Deprivation of liberty and the Cheshire case

This paper and presentation provide an update on Article 5 ECHR and the issue of deprivation of liberty after Cheshire.

Health Care and Public Law

This paper provides strategies, tips and legal developments across the breadth of health and healthcare-related public law challenges.

A Year in Judicial Review: Important cases of the Last 12 Months

A round-up of the important cases and decisions from the last 12 months.

Prison Law Update 2012

The author provides the latest developments in public law arising from the prison law sphere, including a look at recent case law and emerging trends.

Litigating the Cuts: Recent Cases and Current Themes

Louise Whitfield pioneered the use of the equalities duties challenge funding decisions and continues to make ground breaking cases for community groups and NGOs, using the Administrative Court. This paper explores the development of this area through the analysis of recent cases.

Public Law Interventions 2011

Looking at Public Law Project interventions over the previous 12 months.

The Tension Between the UK Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights

Talking on the issue of a bill of rights for the UK. Recorded at PLP’s annual ‘Judicial Review Trends and Forecasts’ conference, October 2011.

Public Law in International Law Claims

Richard Hermer QC's talk from our "Trends and Forecasts" conference 2011, talking on International Law in Public Law Claims.

Access to Justice for NGOs and Charities

Judicial review for NGOs, charities and their lawyers: When should NGOs and charities bring claims? What kinds of claims are most likely to succeed? How can claims be funded? How can NGOs or charities minimise the costs risk of losing and get a Protective Costs Order? How does the Aarhus Convention help access to justice in environmental cases?

Court of Protection: An Update

This paper looks at case law developing in the Court of Protection, including the Court's welfare jurisdiction and the difference between restriction of freedom and deprivation of liberty.

The Duty to Consult

This paper provides practical points claimants should look for when challenging the legality of consultation processes, and how defendants can undertake consultation lawfully so as to avoid challenge.

A Year in Judicial Review 2011

A round-up of the important cases and decisions from the last 12 months.

Costs and Funding in Judicial Review: A Claimant's Guide

This paper covers a range of issues, including Legal Aid reforms, CFA funding - including the Jackson reforms, Protective Costs Orders, Companies as vehicles for litigation, third party funding, tips on recovery your costs and adverse costs risks of JR by stages.

Defending Judicial Review Claims

This paper provides an overview of recent developments and tips on strategy for lawyers defending judicial review claims.

Litigating the cuts

Themes in these papers include: recent decisions and possible grounds of challenge in public sector costs cases, including equality duties, legitimate expectation, vires and Wednesbury. The paper also considers the relevance of resources in this context and practical tips for bringing such challenges.

PLP Review and Impact Report 2006-2011

Review of all departments work between 2006 - 2011

Community Care Law - Current Developments

This paper provides updates on: the impact of Personalisation on Community Care assessment and provision; the reform of Adult Social Care law; the provision of NHS Continuing Healthcare to individuals living in the community.

Court of Protection: Update

This paper looks into recent developments in the Court of Protection, the Court's welfare jurisdiction and the developing case law on deprivation of liberty.

Judicial review: Disclosure and Evidence

This paper looks at the procedural developments in human rights-based claims in judicial review, with special focus on disclosure, public interest immunity and the cope for calling evidence following landmark cases such as R (Al-Sweady and others) v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWHC 2387, where the Administrative Court indicated that it should not be reluctant to order disclosure or permit live evidence and cross-examination in appropriate judicial review cases.

Challenging Cuts to Health and Social Care

This paper provides an overview of recent caselaw regarding cuts to health and social care.

Devolution and Evolution: Judicial Review in Wales

An examination of the Welsh contribution to judicial review, looking at key cases past and present. Clive also assesses the future in light of the referendum on transfer of powers from Westminster to Wales.

Mediation in Judicial Review: a practitioners' handbook

What place does mediation have in judicial review cases? Research by the Public Law Project (PLP) and the University of Essex on the permission stage in judicial review concluded that most judicial review claims are settled and that most settlements satisfy the claims made in the judicial review. While some cases that settle as a result of bilateral negotiations could arguably result in a better outcome for one or both parties were they mediated instead, mediation is an unlikely option where more familiar and straightforward routes to disposal are available to lawyers.

Common Law Rights

This paper analyses the 'principle of legality' and 'anxious scrutiny' and their role in securing the protection of constitutional rights since the enactment of the HRA.

Trends and Forecasts in Judicial Review

Two leading practitioners give an authoritative account of the year's most important cases with insight into the implications for the future.

Community Care: Practising Public Law in a Recession

Consideration of rights and remedies in adult social care - community care as a public law discipline.

Top Ten Judicial Review Cases in 2010

An essential review of the key cases heard over the last year followed by authoritative forecast of the trends in Judicial Review for practitioners.

Judicial Review and Rights of Access to Information

This paper provides an overview of practical issues regarding access to information.

Equality Duty Cases

This paper provides an overview of recent equality duty cases.

Interim Relief in Judicial Review

A practical look at interim injunctions and other pre-trial remedies in JR covering: what they are; when they are available; and how to go about getting them.

Funding Public Law: What it Costs and How to Pay for it

A summary of the costs issued involved in bringing various types of public law disputes, from complaints to test case litigation; how to get round them; and how to get paid in the process.

The Dynamics of Judicial Review Litigation

Given its place in the UK’s constitutional system, an empirically based understanding of the way the judicial review procedure operates is of the utmost importance to users of the system and policymakers. This project offers the first analysis of the process since the post-Bowman reforms were introduced in October 2003 and does so at a time when potentially major changes are taking place to the system in the form of regionalisation and the anticipated transfer of certain cases from the Administrative Court to the Upper Tier Tribunals.

A practical guide to third party interventions

This is a practical guide to third party interventions.

The Public Law Project 1990 - 2005

Brochure and report covering the activities of the first 15 Years of the Public Law Project