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Courts and the Administration in Britain: Standards, Principles and Rights*

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Lionel Cohen Lecture
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1988

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3 Cooper v. Wandsworth Board of Works [1863] 14 CB (NS) 180.

5 See e.g. Nakkuda Ali v. Jurayatner [1951] AC 66; R. v. Metropolitan Police Commissioner ex parte Parker [1953] 1 W.L.R. 1150.

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8 E.g. in Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture [1968] AC 910. On this point see Jowell, Jeffrey, “Administrative Law” in Jowell, and McAuslan, , eds., Lord Denning: The Judge and the Law (1984) at 202–50Google Scholar.

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19 See Lord Scarman in R. v. Secretary of State for the Environment ex parte Nottinghamshire County Council [1986] AC 240 at 250; Pulhofer v. Hillingdon LBC[1986] AC 484.

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29 See e.g. HTV Ltd. v. Price Commission [1976] ICR 170; Re Preston [1985] AC 835; R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Asif Khan [1984] 1 W.L.R. 1337.

30 Supra n. 15.

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33 See Newbury District Council v. Secretary of State for the Environment [1981] AC 528.

34 See, e.g., London Borough of Bromley v. Greater London Council [1983] 1 AC 768.

35 R. v. Nazari [1980] 1 W.L.R. 1366. For further examples of proportionality in English, French and German law, see Jowell, Jeffrey and Lester, Anthony, “Proportionality: Neither Novel nor Dangerous”, in Jowell, and Oliver, , eds., New Directions in Judicial Review (1988) 5172Google Scholar.

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40 Supra n. 3.

41 [1889] 2 QB 91. Emphasis added.

42 Ong Ah Chuan v. Public Prosecutor [1981] AC 648, 669.

43 Brennan, , “Landmarks of Legal Liberty”, in Schwarz, B., ed., The Fourteenth Amendment II (1970) 11Google Scholar. I am indebted to Anthony Lester QC for this entire citation in his “The Overseas Trade in the American Bill of Rights” (1988) 88 Colum. L. R. 537 at 542–43Google Scholar. The quotation that follows is from W. Yeats, B. “Cathleen Ni Houlihan”, in Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats (1953) 57Google Scholar.

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54 Robson, op. cit. supra n. 20, at 517.