The Judicial Review and Courts Bill delivers on the Government\u2019s manifesto commitment to ensure that judicial review is available to protect the rights of individuals against an overbearing state, while ensuring that it is not abused to conduct politics by another means or to create needless delays.<\/p>
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The Bill creates new powers for the courts to modify quashing orders in Judicial Review proceedings and improves the flexibility of the courts to provide proportionate remedies, increasing the tools in their toolbox.<\/p>
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Specifically, the power to suspend a quashing order allows the courts to give time for transitional arrangements to be made, or give Parliament the opportunity to pass legislation in response to a decision to quash.<\/p>
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The Bill also allows for the retrospective effect of quashing orders to be removed or limited. This measure allows the court to protect third parties that have relied on decisions in the past, and whose legal position may be compromised if that decision is quashed retrospectively.<\/p>
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Finally, the Bill removes Cart<\/em> judicial reviews, by way of a narrow and carefully worded ouster clause. We want to remove Cart <\/em>reviews because the situation is, in the Government\u2019s firm view, a disproportionate use of resources in our justice system. Out of around 750 applications a year only 3.4% are successful, and these cases take up around 180 days of precious judicial resource a year.<\/p> <\/p> The Bill finished its Commons Committee stage on 23 November.<\/p>"}
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