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“Autonomic judicial review”: powers in search of identity and assertion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Bu-Buakei Jabbi
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In English law, since 1977 at least, the term “application for judicial review” has come to refer to the special method of applying for public law remedies in the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over inferior courts and administrative bodies or authorities. Moreover, die fine expositions flowing from that jurisdiction—comprising judicial decisions, dicta and learned writings alike—have tended to sound at points as if “judicial review” might be more or less coterminous with “supervisory review”. A useful introduction to the subject, ostensibly setting out “to examine the various different review jurisdictions vested in die English courts”, however, ends up acknowledging and treating only the appellate and supervisory jurisdictions.

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Journal of African Law , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , Spring 1999 , pp. 99 - 111
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1999

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25 As the court of final appeal in Sierra Leone, the Supreme Court is also invested with original and/or reference jurisdictions under various statutory provisions, including ss. 28, 45, 104, 122, 124,127 and 144 of the Constitution, for example.

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