The Timing Rules in Judicial Review and the Practical Difficulties They Cause Environmental Interest Groups: The Need for Reform

Abstract

This article explores the practical difficulties environmental interest groups face in undertaking judicial review, and considers how, and why, judges respond to such difficulties when they exercise their discretion under judicial review's timing rules. It considers whether the dominant sceptical/unsympathetic judicial response to these difficulties is compatible with European law and looks at options for reform of the timing rules.