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Courts and the Administration in Britain: Standards, Principles and Rights*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2016

Jeffrey Jowell
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Israel Law Review , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , Summer–Autumn 1988 , pp. 409 - 423
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1988

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1 See generally, Atiyah, P. S., Pragmatism and Theory in English Law (1987)Google Scholar.

2 (1723) 1 Stra. 557.

3 Cooper v. Wandsworth Board of Works [1863] 14 CB (NS) 180.

4 Ibid.

5 See e.g. Nakkuda Ali v. Jurayatner [1951] AC 66; R. v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner ex parte Parker [1953] 1 W.L.R. 1150.

6 Lord Parker LJ quoted in Williams, G. T., “The Donoughmore Report in Retrospect” (August 1982) Public Administration 273 at 291Google Scholar.

7 O'Reilly v. Mackman [1983] 2 AC 237 at 253 (in the Court of Appeal).

8 E.g. in Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture [1968] AC 910. On this point see Jowell, Jeffrey, “Administrative Law” in Jowell, and McAuslan, , eds., Lord Denning: The Judge and the Law (1984) at 202–50Google Scholar.

9 Congreve v. Home Office [1976] QB 629 at 652–53.

10 In R. v. IRC ex parte NFESB Ltd. [1981] 2 W.L.R. 722 at 737.

11 [1942] AC 206.

12 See Cahn, Edmund, “Law in the Consumer Perspective” (1963) U. Penn. L. R. I.Google Scholar

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14 Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Rome. 4 November 1950: TS 71 (1953): Cmd. 8969.

15 Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [1985] AC 374.

16 [1964] AC 40.

17 [1968] AC 910.

18 Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223.

19 See Lord Scarman in R. v. Secretary of State for the Environment ex parte Nottinghamshire County Council [1986] AC 240 at 250; Pulhofer v. Hillingdon LBC[1986] AC 484.

20 First published in 1928, with subsequent editions in 1947 and 1951.

21 Robson, ibid., at 14.

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23 Supra n. 15.

24 Ibid., at 410–11.

25 R. v. Port Talbot Borough Council ex parte Jones [1988] 2 All E.R. 207.

26 Administrative Justice: Some Necessary Reforms (1988): Report of the Committee of the Justice-All Souls Review of Administrative Law in the United Kingdom.

27 [1985] AC 1054.

28 R. v. Lewisham LBC ex parte Shell UK Ltd. [1988] 1 All E.R. 938.

29 See e.g. HTV Ltd. v. Price Commission [1976] ICR 170; Re Preston [1985] AC 835; R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Asif Khan [1984] 1 W.L.R. 1337.

30 Supra n. 15.

31 R. v. Barnsley Metropolitan BC ex parte Hook [1976] 1 W.L.R. 1052.

32 R. v. Brent LBC ex parte Assegai, The Times, June 18 1987.

33 See Newbury District Council v. Secretary of State for the Environment [1981] AC 528.

34 See, e.g., London Borough of Bromley v. Greater London Council [1983] 1 AC 768.

35 R. v. Nazari [1980] 1 W.L.R. 1366. For further examples of proportionality in English, French and German law, see Jowell, Jeffrey and Lester, Anthony, “Proportionality: Neither Novel nor Dangerous”, in Jowell, and Oliver, , eds., New Directions in Judicial Review (1988) 51–72Google Scholar.

36 See Dworkin, R., Taking Rights Seriously (1977)Google Scholar and A Matter of Principle (1985).

37 In H. P. Bulmer Ltd. v. J. Bollinger SA [1974] Ch 401.

38 See Wyatt, D. and Dashwood, A., The Substantive Law of the EEC (1980)Google Scholar.

39 E.g., the resolution of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe dated 11 March 1980. recommending governments of member states to be guided in their law and practice by various principles annexed to the resolution, including that of proportionality.

40 Supra n. 3.

41 [1889] 2 QB 91. Emphasis added.

42 Ong Ah Chuan v. Public Prosecutor [1981] AC 648, 669.

43 Brennan, , “Landmarks of Legal Liberty”, in Schwarz, B., ed., The Fourteenth Amendment II (1970) 11Google Scholar. I am indebted to Anthony Lester QC for this entire citation in his “The Overseas Trade in the American Bill of Rights” (1988) 88 Colum. L. R. 537 at 542–43Google Scholar. The quotation that follows is from W. Yeats, B. “Cathleen Ni Houlihan”, in Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats (1953) 57Google Scholar.

44 For a deeper analysis of this point see Jowell, Jeffrey and Lester, Anthony, “Beyond Wednesbury: Substantive Principles of Administrative Law” (1987) Public Law 368–382Google Scholar.

45 Supra n. 18.

46 Supra n. 25.

47 Hall v. Shoreham-by-Sea UDC [1964] 1 All E.R. 1.

48 [1985] AC 1054 at 1064–65.

49 R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Herbage (no 2) [1987] 1 All E.R. 324.

50 R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Khawaja [1984] AC 74.

51 Bugdaycay v. Secretary of State for the Home Department [1987] AC 514.

52 R. v. Board of Visitors of H. M. Prison, The Maze, ex parte Hone [1988] 2 W.L.R. 177.

53 Attorney-General v. Guardian Newspapers Ltd. and others [1987] 3 All E.R. 316. This decision has since been reversed: see Attorney-General v. Guardian Newspapers Ltd. (No. 2) [1988] 3 All E.R. 545, but the second round of litigation brought more judicial consideration of the European Convention.

54 Robson, op. cit. supra n. 20, at 517.