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Charlie Taben's avatar

More uniquely informative content… and beautifully written. Thank you

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Stephen Webb's avatar

Great piece. In the UK at least the problem is not so much with what issues are subject to JR, but courts' tendency to give Ministers or the executive no 'margin of appreciation', the old Wednesbury principle of clearly irrational decisions. Instead they see themselves as entitled, even required under Human rights legislation to retake the original decision, despite judges neither having the information, training or legitimacy to take such decisions at all

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