Overview

Written by three experienced practitioners, this definitive work provides unrivalled analysis and guidance on the law of judicial review. Updated with the most relevant and recent case law, this new edition of Judicial Review: Principles and Procedure includes chapters on each of the substantive and procedural grounds on which a claim for judicial review may be brought, including topics such as fairness, consultation, proportionality, and legitimate expectation. It offers detailed treatment of areas such as the public sector equality duty, challenges to administrative policies, challenges to legislation, and common law constitutional rights. The book contains comprehensive coverage of the procedure at each stage of a claim for judicial review, from the pre-action stage to the permission stage and interim remedies, through to the substantive stage, final remedies, and costs. Newly added to this edition are a comprehensive guide to post-Brexit UK-EU Relations Law contributed by Jack Williams, and a guide to the use of international law in judicial review contributed by Sean Aughey-both of which ensure that the book provides a uniquely full treatment of all of the issues which might be encountered in practice.The volume's accessible format allows readers easily to access the law on specific points, making it an indispensable reference for barristers, solicitors, public sector organisations, and legal libraries.

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Author:   Jonathan Moffett KC (Barrister, Barrister, 11 King's Bench Walk Chambers) ,  Jonathan Auburn KC (Barrister, Barrister, 11 King's Bench Walk Chambers) ,  Andrew Sharland KC (Barrister, Barrister, 11 King's Bench Walk Chambers)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9780198817253

ISBN 10:   0198817258
Pages:   1232
Publication Date:   16 April 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   To order  

Table of Contents

PART I: THE BASIS FOR AND SCOPE OF JUDICIAL REVIEW 1: The legal and theoretical bases for judicial review 2: Scope of judicial review PART II: JUDICIAL REVIEW AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998, UK-EU RELATIONS, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 3: The Human Rights Act 1998 and judicial review 4: UK-EU relations law and judicial review 5: Public international law and foreign relations in judicial review PART III: PROCEDURAL GROUNDS OF CHALLENGE 6: Procedural fairness: general issues 7: Procedural fairness: specific requirements 8: Consultation 9: Bias, predetermination, and independence 10: Delay on the part of public bodies 11: Notice of and reasons for decisions PART IV: SUBSTANTIVE GROUNDS OF CHALLENGE 12: Sources and scope of public bodies' power and duties 13: Acting outside scope of powers and duties 14: Failing to comply with duties or to exercise powers 15: Relevant, irrelevant, and permissable considerations 16: Public sector equality duty 17: Unauthorised or improper purposes 18: Irrationality and unreasonableness 19: Proportionality 20: Legitimate expectations 21: Errors of fact 22: Policies, guidance, and non-statutory schemes 23: Challenges to legislation 24: Common law constitutional rights PART V: PROCEDURE AND REMEDIES 25: Introduction to judicial review procedure 26: Claims for which judicial review procedure must or may be used 27: The parties 28: The pre-action stage 29: Bringing the claim and initial responses to the claim 30: Evidence, the duty of candour, and disclosure 31: The permission decision 32: Interim remedies 33: The substantive stage 34: Appeals 35: Costs 36: Final remedies

Reviews

Judicial Review: Principles and Procedure is the focused, concise, but comprehensive textbook that public lawyers will want and value in day to day practice * Richard Clayton QC, 4-5 Gray's Inn Square * This is a concise but highly comprehensive and up to date account of the law relating to judicial review. It will certainly now be my first port of call for public law problems * Nigel Giffin QC, 11KBW * This is a masterly work. Beautifully and clearly set out, succint and accurate in its content, and perceptive in its analysis. I predict that it will become the front-runner in its field * Robert Jay QC, Thirty-Nine Essex Street Chambers *

Author Information

Jonathan Moffett KC is a leading public law silk, with over 25 years' practical experience in the field. He has argued judicial review cases at all levels up to the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights, and he is recommended by both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 as a leading practitioner in administrative and public law, local government law, and education law. Mr Moffett sits in the Administrative Court as a Deputy High Court Judge, and as a Recorder in the Crown Court. He is a former Chair of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association. Jonathan Auburn KC is recognised as a leading public law silk, recommended by both Chambers & Partners and the Legal 500 as a leading practitioner in administrative and public law, local government law, community care law, education law, and mental capacity (Court of Protection). He sits as a Recorder in the Crown Court. Andrew Sharland KC is recommended as a leading silk in Chambers and Partners and/or Legal 500 in public law and human rights, local government law, community care law, education law, information law, and public inquiries and inquests. He has been nominated as public law silk of the year by Legal 500. He practices in domestic, European and Commonwealth courts. He is also co-author of Media Law and Human Rights (OUP 2009).

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