Judicial review of public administration

Abstract

Government Ministers and local authorities have been increasingly, and embarrassingly, hauled before the courts. The threat that Thames Water Authority might suffer the same fate at the hands of the National & Local Government Officers Association was a major factor in the Government's decision to postpone privatisation of the water industry. All this is the result of a new judicial process that has crept up on a largely unsuspecting public sector‐and is being gleefully exploited by trade unions and others.