I am very pleased to pass on information about an important symposium taking place in March at the Court of Appeal for Ontario to mark the 50th anniversary of her appointment to that court – see further here.  The Court of Appeal for Ontario is marking the 50th anniversary of the appointment of Bertha Wilson to the […] Read more

This is the third of three parts of an essay for an edited collection celebrating the career of Gerard Hogan, currently a judge on the Irish Supreme Court Back to the Future: the Rise of Responsiveness In the previous sections I outlined the state of administrative law at the outset of Gerard Hogan’s career before […] Read more

This is the second of three parts of an essay for an edited collection celebrating the career of Gerard Hogan, currently a judge on the Irish Supreme Court From Form to Substance: Contemporary Judicial Review The collapse of formalism and the displacement of jurisdiction by reasonableness is best appreciated by reference to Justice Hogan’s decisions […] Read more

This week the Irish government published heads of legislation that would significantly reform judicial review of administrative action. The general scheme of the Civil Reform Bill 2025 can be accessed here. Some, but by no means all, of these suggestions were made in a report on civil justice reform several years ago (see here). Some […] Read more