Public Law for Everyone

Professor Mark Elliott

Wednesbury

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
Consistency as a free-standing principle of administrative law?

June 15, 2018
Q: How many Supreme Court Justices does it take to perform the Wednesbury doctrine’s burial rites? A: More than five

November 27, 2015
Book chapter: From Bifurcation to Calibration — Twin-Track Deference and the Culture of Justification

May 12, 2015
Wilberg and Elliott (eds): The Scope and Intensity of Substantive Review: Traversing Taggart’s Rainbow

December 15, 2014
Reasonableness review and the Court of Appeal’s decision in the Prince Charles correspondence case

March 12, 2014
The super-Wednesbury principle is alive and well: R (Rotherham MBC) v Business Secretary

February 17, 2014
Where next for the Wednesbury principle? A brief response to Lord Carnwath

November 19, 2013
Prince Charles, freedom of information, judicial review and the separation of powers: R (Evans) v Attorney-General

July 9, 2013
Does the ultra vires doctrine prevent courts from replacing Wednesbury review with proportionality?

March 15, 2013