Public Law for Everyone
Professor Mark Elliott
Administrative Law Archive
In Defence of Classical Administrative Law
September 16, 2025
The Supreme Court’s judgment in Shvidler: Lord Leggatt’s Liversidge v Anderson moment
July 29, 2025
The principle of legality and heightened-scrutiny rationality review: The Supreme Court’s judgment in the Spitalfields case
March 28, 2025
KP v Foreign Secretary: A primer on rationality review
March 10, 2025
Judicial review reform: the importance of grown-up debate
February 14, 2025
Judicial review 101: McAleenon in the Supreme Court
October 16, 2024
Judicial review reform IV: Culture war? Two visions of the UK constitution
April 28, 2021
Judicial review reform III: Substantive review and the courts’ constitutional role
April 17, 2021
Judicial review reform II: Ouster clauses and the rule of law
April 11, 2021
Judicial review reform I: Nullity, remedies and constitutional gaslighting
April 6, 2021
The (constitutional) state we’re in: A week in British politics
September 13, 2020
The Judicial Review Review III: Limiting judicial review by ‘clarifying’ non-justiciability — or putting lipstick on the proverbial pig
August 20, 2020
The Judicial Review Review II: Codifying Judicial Review — Clarification or Evisceration?
August 10, 2020
The Judicial Review Review I: The Reform Agenda and its Potential Scope
August 3, 2020
The Supreme Court’s judgment in Finucane — II: Three unanswered questions concerning the doctrine of legitimate expectation
March 8, 2019
The Supreme Court’s judgment in Finucane — I: Legitimate expectations, reliance, procedure and substance
March 5, 2019
Consistency as a free-standing principle of administrative law?
June 15, 2018
Through the Looking-Glass? Ouster Clauses, Statutory Interpretation and the British Constitution
January 10, 2018
Privacy International
in the Court of Appeal:
Anisminic
distinguished — again
November 26, 2017
Unison
in the Supreme Court: Tribunal Fees, Constitutional Rights and the Rule of Law
July 26, 2017
The “bedroom tax”, Convention rights and secondary legislation
April 28, 2017
Discarding the fig-leaf of analytical reasoning? The
Hutton
case and the law/fact distinction
March 24, 2017
The Admin Law Blog
March 1, 2017
Oakley v South Cambridgeshire District Council
: The maturing of the common law duty to give reasons
February 22, 2017
Distinguishing
Anisminic
? Ouster clauses, parliamentary sovereignty and the
Privacy International
case
February 10, 2017
Elliott & Varuhas:
Administrative Law
January 9, 2017
The House of Lords Constitution Committee reports on Article 50
September 13, 2016
Judicial Power’s 50 “problematic” cases and the limits of the judicial role
May 9, 2016
The duty to give reasons and the new statutory “makes no difference” principle
April 18, 2016
The 2016 Sir David Williams Lecture:
The Lion Beneath the Throne
March 14, 2016
Ali v United Kingdom
: Article 6(1) ECHR and administrative decision-making
March 13, 2016
Bell, Elliott, Varuhas and Murray (eds):
Public Law Adjudication in Common Law Systems: Process and Substance
February 26, 2016
From Heresy to Orthodoxy: Substantive Legitimate Expectations in English Public Law
February 11, 2016
Youssef
: Another Supreme Court decision, another set of
obiter dicta
on substantive judicial review
January 28, 2016
Declarations, quashing orders and declaratory judgments: The
Hawke
case and section 84 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015
December 15, 2015
Q: How many Supreme Court Justices does it take to perform the
Wednesbury
doctrine’s burial rites? A: More than five
November 27, 2015
Mandalia v Home Secretary
[2015] UKSC 59: Legitimate expectations and the consistent application of policy
October 14, 2015
The Unity of Public Law? — The 2016 Public Law Conference
September 7, 2015
Bourgass in the Supreme Court: Solitary Confinement, the Carltona Doctrine and Procedural Fairness
July 29, 2015
Now published: Wilberg and Elliott (eds),
The Scope and Intensity of Substantive Review: Traversing Taggart’s Rainbow
June 1, 2015
Book chapter: From Bifurcation to Calibration — Twin-Track Deference and the Culture of Justification
May 12, 2015
Proportionality and contextualism in common-law review: The Supreme Court’s judgment in
Pham
April 17, 2015
The
Rotherham
case in the Supreme Court: Deference, reasonableness and proportionality
February 25, 2015
From bad to worse: The Justice Secretary on judicial review
January 14, 2015
Wilberg and Elliott (eds):
The Scope and Intensity of Substantive Review: Traversing Taggart’s Rainbow
December 15, 2014
Human rights, proportionality and the judicial function:
R (Carlile) v Home Secretary
in the Supreme Court
November 13, 2014
Lords Woolf and Brown on proposed limitation of judicial review
July 30, 2014
The Immigration Act 2014: Judicial review, proportionality and democratic deference
May 29, 2014
Judicial review reform: the report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights
April 30, 2014
From legitimate expectation to a doctrine of consistency: DM v Home Secretary
April 1, 2014
Common-law constitutionalism and proportionality in the Supreme Court: Kennedy v The Charity Commission
March 31, 2014
Reasonableness review and the Court of Appeal’s decision in the Prince Charles correspondence case
March 12, 2014
The Miranda case, the fair-balance test, and deference
February 20, 2014
The super-Wednesbury principle is alive and well: R (Rotherham MBC) v Business Secretary
February 17, 2014
Judicial review reform (again)
February 6, 2014
Limits on judicial review of major planning decisions to be announced, says The Times
February 4, 2014
Where next for the Wednesbury principle? A brief response to Lord Carnwath
November 19, 2013
Baroness Hale on the value of public-interest standing in judicial review
November 4, 2013
Bingham Centre response to latest judicial review proposals
November 1, 2013
Justification, calibration and substantive judicial review: putting doctrine in its place
September 17, 2013
New Ministry of Justice consultation paper – Judicial Review: Proposals for Further Reform
September 6, 2013
Consultation on limiting judicial review imminent?
September 6, 2013
The government’s power to terminate judicial review cases, the rule of law, and the limits of political constitutionalism
August 12, 2013
Special issue of Judicial Review on legal aid proposals
August 9, 2013
Standing, judicial review and the rule of law: why we all have a “direct interest” in government according to law
July 29, 2013
Jurisdictional error and the law/fact distinction: Jones (by Caldwell) v First-tier Tribunal [2013] UKSC 19
April 17, 2013
Is the margin of appreciation something that domestic courts should be applying?
February 25, 2013
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