CPL Seminar: 'Any Room for Deference on Relevance Grounds?'

Speaker: Hanna Wilberg, University of Auckland
Title: 'Any Room for Deference on Relevance Grounds?'
Location: Moot Court Room, Faculty of Law

Should courts in judicial review ever pull back from simply substituting their view as to what considerations are relevant and what purposes are proper for the exercise of the statutory power under review? How should these grounds of review be conceptualized? English courts treat these grounds as involving questions of law, and they do not defer on questions of law. Canadian courts, on the other hand, do defer on questions of law – but paradoxically, they have been slow to do so on relevance and purpose grounds. My paper explores whether there is any rhyme or reason to all this.

All Faculty Members and Visitors, PhD students and LLM Public Law students are welcome.

For more information contact Mark Elliott (mce1000@cam.ac.uk)