Public Interest Group Participation in Decisionmaking: The Broader Meaning of the Law Reform Commission Proposals

Abstract

In this article the author examines the expanding role which public interest groups can play in decision making in our society. He discusses the proposals of the Law Reform Commission to ease the present rigid locus standi requirements and points out that the main issue is not access to the courts but to government itself, and that various matters which he then investigates control public access. He concludes by suggesting several ways in which the present situation may be modified and improved.