Principles of Judicial Review

        To facilitate the general public government of England has established a system through which people can appeal against the decisions of the different public departments. This review system has enabled the public to easily request to the court to review the decision, which they thought are biased or unfair. The high court has launched a special branch called administrative court, which deals with all the applications for the review of the decisions of the public departments. Administrative court cannot only change the decision of the public department but it can also pay the losses to concern person and impose fine on the public departments if they make any biased or unfair decision. [6].

        In England, whenever a public body or public department is formed then all the authorities and powers and SOPs are defined for this public body according to the law. Whenever any matter is put forward to the administrative court for review against any public body, then the court reviews this decision according to power and SOPs allotted to the public department by law. In addition, court analyzes the decision if public body has made the decision by keeping these legal boundaries under consideration. European convention on human rights has been followed in England  [4].

        In USA and some other countries, some laws, which are made by the parliaments, can also be reviewed by the courts. However, in England laws made by the parliament cannot be reviewed by the court except few of those laws, which are against the European Convention on Human Rights, and European Union laws.

References of Judicial Review