After the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill’s second reading in the House of Commons yesterday (24 February), Angela Patrick, director of human rights at JUSTICE, considers the Government’s proposals for the future of judicial review
For law students who slept their way through their first latin 101 lessons in ultra vires, public law and judicial review may have seemed very detached from the realities of everyday life; less relevant to the man on the Clapham Omnibus than the rigours of a good criminal defence or protection from eviction offered by landlord and tenant law.
