Human Rights Act 1998

• Section 3 (obligation to read legislation and to give it effect in a way which is compatible with the Convention rights.)
• Section 4 (declarations of incompatibility)
• Section 6 (making conduct of a public authority ‘unlawful’ if contrary to a Convention right, unless statute requires it)
• Section 7 (proceedings by a victim)
• Section 8 (remedies)
• Schedule 1 (list of the Articles of the European Convention of Human Rights to which the Human Rights Act gives effect)

Civil Procedure Rules

• Part 1 (overriding objective)
• Part 3 (case-management powers including striking out and extending or shortening the time for compliance with any rule)
• Part 24 (summary judgment)
• Part 25 (interim remedies – interim declarations Rule 25.1(1)(b))
• Part 40 (declaratory relief – Rule 40.20)
• Part 54 (judicial review, previously Rules of the Supreme Court Order 53)
• Defines a claim for judicial review
• Indicates the remedies available
• Outlines the need for permission
• Indicates the time limit
• Indicates procedures applying at the permission and substantive stages
• Provides for interim declarations
• Schedule 1: Rules of the Supreme Court (RSC) Order 54 (applications for writ of habeas corpus - not to be confused with Part 54, which governs all claims for judicial review other than a claim for a writ of habeas corpus).

Supreme Court Act 1981 (as amended by Civil Procedure [Modification of Supreme Court Act 1981] Order 2004, SI 2004/1033)

• The name of the Act was changed, by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 Schedule 11, from ‘Supreme Court Act 1981’ to ‘Senior Courts Act 1981’
• Section 29 as amended by Article 3 of 2004 Order (provides that mandamus, prohibition and certiorari are to be known as mandatory order, prohibiting order and quashing order)
• Section 31 as amended by Article 4 of 2004 Order (claim for judicial review, amended to allow for ‘restitution or the recovery of a sum due’ in judicial review)
• Section 42 (process for the ‘restriction of vexatious legal proceedings’)

Crown Proceedings Act 1947

• Section 21 allows the court to give a declaration in an ordinary claim against the Crown
• Section 17 provides that in form, the claim is against the relevant department or the Attorney-General