HMCTS issues guidance on judicial review in Admin Court
HM Courts & Tribunals Services has issued detailed legal guidance on judicial review cases in the Administrative Court.
The 152-page document, which can be viewed here, includes information on:
- preliminary matters: parties; litigants in person; vexatious litigant orders and civil restraint orders; before starting the claim;
- starting a claim: including acknowledgment of service;
- applying for permission for judicial review: including after permission;
- substantive hearings;
- remedies;
- case management: including listing;
- specific practice points: duty of candour; interim relief; urgent cases; skeleton arguments; documents; authorities; evidence; sanctions;
- ending a claim;
- costs: including protective costs orders and judicial review costs capping orders; costs capping;
- appeals.
The guide also includes contact details for the court, information on forms and fees, and addresses for serving documents on government departments.
Writing in the foreword, Sir Brian Leveson, President of the Queen’s Bench Division, said: “It is an invaluable roadmap to the practice and procedure of the Court which will greatly assist all who are involved in proceedings before it.
“Good practice is identified and pitfalls foreshadowed. I have no doubt as to its utility.”
