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06 November 2020
Issue: 7909 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Judicial review
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NLJ this week: The Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL)

Does judicial review strike the right balance between citizen and government, as the Independent Review of Administrative Law seeks to discover?

‘It would be naïve to ignore the reality that the question comes with a heavily loaded political agenda,’ Michael Zander QC, NLJ columnist, writes this week.

Zander presents highlights from the 19-page submission to the review of the authors of De Smith’s Judicial Review (see attached pdf).

Submissions closed last week and the review panel are expected to produce their report by the end of the year. 

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Osbornes Law—Alex McMahon, Andrew Middlehurst & Harriet McMorrin

Homegrown hat-trick: Osbornes Law promotes three former trainees to partner

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

mfg Solicitors—Sarah Bradford

Partner arrival boosts law firm’s growing real estate team

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths—David Smith

Freeths secures major tax hire with appointment of David Smith

NEWS
The Supreme Court has clarified the scope of a director’s duty, in a case where a chairman’s good intentions went awry due to the pandemic
Digital fraud is ‘baffling policymakers, investigators, prosecutors and enforcers’, leaving ‘a massive justice gap’, the author of a government-commissioned independent review has warned
Richard Lloyd’s independent review of the Legal Services Board (LSB) has delivered a devastating verdict, accusing the super-regulator of having ‘lost its way in recent years’
The House of Commons has passed the Hillsborough Law, in a historic achievement for campaigners, survivors and families of those who died in the 1989 stadium collapse
Judicial statistics show a steady rise in the number of female judges and Asian and mixed ethnicity judges in the past ten years—however, progress in terms of representation has stalled for both Black lawyers and for solicitors
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