Chapter 7 Links to other useful resources

Chapter 7 Links to other useful resources

Discretion and deference

Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education

  • The OIA website (www.oiahe.org.uk) has a complaints wizard which explains that the OIA (like the courts in judicial review) cannot deal with a complaint if it relates to a matter of academic judgment. 

Code for Crown Prosecutors

Chapter 10: How to sue the government

Administrative Court 

  • The Administrative Court website gives an overview of the jurisdiction of the Administrative Court 

Reports

Law Commission, 'Remedies in Administrative Law' (Cmnd 6407, 1976)

  • The report that led to the changes in Order 53 to the judicial review procedure, creating a single simpler 'application for judicial review' (in place of diverse forms of application for different prerogative remedies), allowing declarations and injunctions to be given in the same proceedings, and creating a single requirement of a 'sufficient interest' for standing.
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