Contextual review
The instinctive impulse and unstructured normativism in judicial review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21495462 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dean Knight (0000-0001-6133-5857, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author), Dean R Knight |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Legal Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3875 • E-ISSN: 1748-121X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/lst.2020.1 |
| OpenAlex | W3012554391 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
Contextual review is a judicial method that rejects doctrinal or categorical methods to guide judicial supervision of administrative action. Judges are invited to assess the circumstances of a claim in the round without any doctrinal scaffolding to control the depth of scrutiny; in other words, intervention turns on an instinctive judicial impulse or overall evaluative judgement. This paper identifies and explains the various instances where this method is deployed in judicial review in Anglo-Commonwealth administrative law. The efficacy of this style of review is also evaluated, using rule of law standards to frame the analysis. Its increasing popularity is a worrying turn, in part because its reliance on unstructured normativism undermines the rule of law
Commonwealth · Instinct · Judgement · Judicial opinion · Judicial review · Law and economics · Political science · Popularity · Scrutiny · Sociology · Statutory law · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal principles and applications · Ombudsman and Human Rights · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |