The Scope and Intensity of Substantive Review

Traversing Taggart's Rainbow

Inspired by the work of Professor Michael Taggart, this collection of essays from across the common law world is concerned with two separate but related themes. First, to what extent and by what means should review on substantive grounds such as unreasonableness be expanded and intensified? Jowell, Elliott and Varuhas all agree with Taggart that proportionality should not ''sweep the rainbow'', but propose different schemes for organising and conceptualising substantive review. Groves and Weeks,... (Læs mere)