CPL Seminar: 'Amenability to Judicial Review: In Defence of Source of Power'

Speaker: Alex Williams, University of Durham
Location: Moot Court Room, Faculty of Law

This paper explores the amenability of bodies to domestic judicial review. It argues that academic and judicial commentary on the subject has been mistaken for proceeding on the basis of two largely untested assumptions over the past thirty or so years: (i) that the law has shifted away from a test based on the source of the power, to one based on the nature of the function; and (ii) that such a shift is normatively desirable. In particular it is argued that the landmark Court of Appeal ruling in Ex p Datafin has been much misunderstood as effecting this shift in the law.

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

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