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Criminal Justice and Courts Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Deben (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 9 December 2014. It occurred during Debate on bills on Criminal Justice and Courts Bill.

I have taken advantage of now being able to look up online in this House the suggestions as to why these cases are important. The first one is a case study on residential development in which the judge decided that there were two grounds of law which ought to be met. They were discussed and both were dismissed. Is my noble friend really saying that because it was inconvenient those two particularities of law should not be looked at? There is a second case put before us about a free school which is quite complicated but there were people who had a real issue. They are the only two cases to explain the argument that there have been more and more cases of judicial review. Frankly, there have been more and more cases of the Government interfering in the detailed arrangements of life and therefore it is not surprising that the number of judicial review cases has increased.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
757 c1756 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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