Advice on judicial review, UK, I have just lodged an appeal,

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There are three main grounds for judicial review: illegality, procedural unfairness, and irrationality.

• A decision can be overturned on the ground of illegality if the decision-maker did not have the legal power to make that decision.
• A decision can be overturned on the ground of procedural unfairness if the process leading up to the decision was improper. For instance, a decision-maker who is supposed to be impartial was biased.
• A decision can be overturned on the ground of irrationality if it is so unreasonable that no reasonable person, acting reasonably, could have made it. This is a very high bar to get over, and it is rare for the courts to grant judicial review on this basis.

In addition, a decision can be overturned if a public authority has acted in a way that is incompatible with human rights. There is one exception to this, though: if the public authority is merely doing what parliament told it to do, then it is not acting unlawfully even if it does act incompatibly with one of those rights. Note tha a judge cannot quash or declare unlawful a government decision merely on the basis that the judge would have made a different decision, or that the decision was wrong.

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