Joe Tomlinson, Jack Maxwell, Emma Marshall, Joanna Hynes
The public health crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic subjected judicial review to competing pressures. There was pressure for courts to be accommodating to governments both substantively and procedurally, for judicial review to be minimised and restricted and for powers to be broadly and generously construed. On the other hand, the unparalleled intrusions on individual freedoms and the need for hurried rule-making with little political scrutiny called for heightened vigilance and might have justified the courts developing a role acting in partnership with Governments in ensuring COVID-19 rules were lawful, reasonable and proportionate. The reported decisions in England, Wales and Scotland reveal the dominance of the first of these pressures and they paint a markedly deferential picture. Judicial rulings had negligible impact on COVID-19 restrictions. Courts did not act in partnership with the Government in shaping COVID-19 rules. The system of judicial review nonetheless had impact through what we described as its “second look” function: providing a mechanism for triggering public servants to look again at a decision and amended or change them to provide a sounder balance between public health imperatives and competing rights and interests.
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{"title":"Elspeth Reid, <i>The Law of Delict in Scotland</i>","authors":"Gordon Cameron","doi":"10.3366/elr.2023.0862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2023.0862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43268,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Law Review","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135688345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Best Interests and “Wishes and Feelings” in the Context of Posthumous Reproduction","authors":"Ruby Reed-Berendt","doi":"10.3366/elr.2023.0830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2023.0830","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43268,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Law Review","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135337406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"Clive Walker et al (eds), Precursor Crimes of Terrorism: The Criminalisation of Terrorism Risk in Comparative Perspective." Edinburgh Law Review, 27(2), pp. 236–237
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{"title":"R A S MacLeod, <i>Contentious Executries: Commissary and Executry Litigation in Scotland</i>","authors":"Duncan Adam","doi":"10.3366/elr.2023.0836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2023.0836","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43268,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Law Review","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135337592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roderick R M Paisley, <i>Rights Ancillary to Servitudes</i>","authors":"Ann Stewart","doi":"10.3366/elr.2023.0835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2023.0835","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43268,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Law Review","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135337405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implied Contractual Terms and Repudiation: <i>PLZ Soccer Ltd v STV Central Ltd</i>","authors":"Martin Hogg, Laura Macgregor","doi":"10.3366/elr.2023.0829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2023.0829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43268,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Law Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135337583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Safe Access Zones Bill Reference: Appellate Proportionality","authors":"Anurag Deb","doi":"10.3366/elr.2023.0834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2023.0834","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43268,"journal":{"name":"Edinburgh Law Review","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135337585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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