Judicial Review is an essential process of Administrative Law. Judicial Review is where an applicant (or Claimant) asks the Administrative Court (a division of the High Court) to rule on the legality or reasonableness of a decision by a public body. Judicial Review is a distinctive feature of English law and rarely seen in other […]
Month: June 2011
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Asylum Legacy Policy Update
UK Border Agency struggles to deal with asylum application backlog The Home Affairs Select Committee has published a new report on the work of the UK Border Agency (UKBA), pointing to the way how the agency deals with the backlog of approximately 450,000 unresolved asylum applications which was build up during 1990s and 2000s. The […]
What is public law? Public law is the law relating to the exercise of power by public bodies. It is a specialised area of the law. Almost everybody is affected by public law, whether or not they are aware of it. What are public bodies? There are many public bodies of various kinds. Public bodies make […]
