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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Commercial Regulation and Judicial Review by Julia Black Peter Muchlinski Paul Walker
The development of judicial review has been one of laws great growth industries for more than a quarter of a century. It is the public bodies whose activities are routinely subjected to judicial scrutiny which have felt the effects of judicial review most keenly. There has also been a trend in recent years towards judicial review of private bodies whose activities include a public aspect. This has meant a growing awarenessin industry and commerce of the potential for review of regulatory decisions. In light of the growing importance of this branch of public law the LSE and Brick Court Chambers decided jointly to host a series of seminars out of which this book has developed. In this important new book expert academics and practitioners (some of them lawyers working in regulated industries) analyse the origins and modern growth of judicial review in the commercial context and attempt to analyse the way in which the law may develop in the future.show more