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Nehushtan, Y (2017) The Non-Identical Twins in UK Public Law: Reasonableness and Proportionality. Israel Law Review, 50 (1). pp. 69-86. ISSN 0021-2237

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Abstract
Ever since the Wednesbury decision in 1947 UK courts and UK public law scholars have been struggling to comprehend the meaning of ‘reasonableness’ and its relation to ‘proportionality’. The main purpose of this article is to promote conceptual clarity in UK public law by describing the nature of reasonableness and proportionality as grounds of judicial review and by highlighting the overlooked similarities and differences between them. The main arguments of this article are that (1) reasonableness is in its essence a balancing and weighing test; (2) proportionality adds very little to already existing grounds of judicial review in UK public law; (3) this addition is not necessarily focused on the administrative weighing and balancing process; and (4) since proportionality adds very little to already existing grounds of judicial review, no conceptual or normative reason prevents having proportionality as a general ground of judicial review in UK public law.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | This is the accepted author manuscript (AAM). The final published version (version of record) is available online via Cambridge University Press at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223716000261 - please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | reasonableness, proportionality, judicial review, public law |
Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Law |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2016 15:07 |
Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2017 16:09 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/2071 |
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