Public Law Project – How to do Judicial Review North

A complete, one day course to provide lawyers and advisers, policy people and decision makers with an understanding of public law principles and how they operate in bringing and defending judicial review claims. The course is also relevant to those working in campaigning organisations with a legal strategy and those representing and advising marginalised groups in society.

Garden Court North Chambers barristers Jonathan Holt, Mikhil Karnik, Joseph Markus, James Stark and Kate Stone will be speaking at this event.

Course includes:

Public law: who it affects, which decisions can be challenged, what remedies can be offered
What kinds of decision can be challenged using Judicial Review?
Public law wrongs
Public bodies and public functions
Differences between cases based on the Human Rights Act and other grounds
Illegality and fairness
Claims by pressure and public interest groups
Using the freedom of Information Act in public law
Third-party interventions in test cases
Alternatives to judicial review
Initiating a claim for judicial review and steps in a judicial review claim
Initial advice and preparation
Funding
Pre-Action protocol
Preparing to issue
Public law quiz!