Week 5 Lecture Notes

A legal reference hub for judicial review principles in Australia, covering statutory and common law review, key cases, remedies, and limitations like privative clauses, with comparative insights on administrative decision-making.

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L e c t u r e N o t e sOrigin: of Judicial ReviewJ u d i c i a l review has its o r i g i n s in c o m m o n law, in particular the rules of the Kings BenchCourts in L o n d o n .J u d i c i a l review is only concerned with theegal ity of d e c i s i o n m a k i n g .»The three central writs that d e v e l o p e d in the Kings Bench — Preroqairve iVr.ts(duetotheirassociation with delivering the authority of the Monarch and disciplining lower-leveldecision-making -d e v e l o p e d g r a d u a l l y over the 13th to the18th century:Certiorari — to be fully i n f o r m e d ; to ca I Up the record of a lower- evel d e c i s i o n - m a k e rfor r e v i e w ; to quash a d e c i s i o n that has a l r e a d y beenm a d e3roni b i t i o n -al o w s f o ' highevel courts to p r o h i b i to-p r e v e n t a o ecis i o n - m a t e ' fromp r o c e e d i n g'witha c o u r s e of actionMendamUs -a I o ws f o r ehighe r co urt to co mpe I a d ecisi o r -maker to p erform certa ina c t i o n s*The law of E q u i t y also d e v e l o p e d some r e m e d i e s when the Prerogative Writs c o L i d r o tbeaccessed:DeclarationI n j u n c t i o nThe Prerogative Writs end E q u i t y r e m e d i e s are discussed t o g e t h e r as c o m m o n law review.Development of Judicial Review*Prob em s with the prer og at' ve writs and e q uitabl e rem edies:The prerogative writs in p a r t i c u l a r were very t e c h n i c a l and there were issueswithattempting to apply c o n c e p t s that were d e v e l o p e d c e n t u r i e s earlier to the m o d e r nadministrative states.A p p l i c a n t s had to go t h r o u g h a two-step h e a r i n g p r o c e s swhichwas very e x p e n s i v eand t i m e - c o r & U m i n g .There is a different in theevel of scope between the d i f f e r e n t p r e r o g a t i v e 'writs andd' Terent availability b e t w e e n the writs and e q u i t y which made t h i n g s very c o n f u s i n gfor p e o p l e .*Reform process — 1960s- 1970s- 1980s:

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