The purpose of this book is to provide practical guidance to practitioners involved in judicial review cases before the New Zealand courts.

This NZLS CLE seminar offers a practitioner’s perspective of judicial review by engaging in a practical discussion of what judicial review is, how we think it is changing, and how to “do it” if you find yourself needing to bring (or defend) judicial review proceedings on behalf of a client.

We need to acknowledge that this seminar is a longstanding one. This book has been the work of several leading public law practitioners, including, most recently, Francis Cooke QC (as he then was). While we have adapted and updated the book, it owes much to the work of those earlier authors and Justice Francis Cooke, in particular.

The book in its current form offers an overview of the fundamentals of judicial review. It then focuses on the grounds for review that have been recognised by the New Zealand courts, including by reference to examples of decisions in this area by the New Zealand courts and, in some cases, the courts of other common law jurisdictions. (continued...)