Advanced Judicial Review 2025

Know how to do judicial review and want to up-skill? This is the course for you, with insight and outlook across cutting-edge and key areas of practice in judicial review. 

The course will be delivered online over Zoom, with webinars in the early morning and mid-afternoon to allow time for your work and other commitments.

All sessions will be recorded for delegates to access after the event.

Who this training is for

Lawyers involved in all aspects of judicial review and public law, including: 

• Solicitors and barristers
• Academics and researchers in public law
• Policy people in Government or NGOs concerned with public law
• Law students 

As delegates you will learn about

• Ensuring access to information in JR   
• Urgent JR applications and how to make them with more confidence 
• Latest cases on standing and who can bring a JR 
• Using international law in domestic courts 
• Cutting edge environmental litigation 
• Working with communities to use the law effectively 

Tickets 

• Standard: £160
  – for those in private practice, Government and public bodies
• Discounted: £120
  – for NGOs, charities, trainees, pupils and paralegals, researchers and academics at universities
• Student tickets: £20
  – for students in full-time education making the booking using a valid university email address
• We will consider requests for low-price or free tickets, please contact [email protected]

Programme

Day 1: Monday 28 April

10:00-11:30 Judicial Review: What do we need to know, what do we have a right to know?

This session looks at transparency and the duty of candour in judicial review, including through recently published research. The panel will also look at the difficulties of ‘black box’ litigation which potentially requires access to data that is currently unavailable or very hard to obtain. We’ll also look at how lawyers, NGOs and journalists and campaigners can work together on these issues. 

• Chair: Sian Norris, openDemocracy 
• Christopher Knight, 11KBW
• Dr Elizabeth O’Loughlin, Durham University
• Bijan Hoshi, Garden Court Chambers
• Rebecca Dooley, StopWatch

14:00-15:30 The resurgence of standing

Recent years have seen a resurgence in questions around standing, and our panel will help bring clarity to the question ‘Who can bring a claim for judicial review?’ The session will look at complexities around context, how principles around standing have developed in recent caselaw, and unusual situations where, for example, substitution of claimants can take place.

• Chair: Nikolaus Grubeck, Monckton Chambers
• Clare Dedman, Government Legal Department
• Alex Goodman KC, Landmark Chambers
• Stacy Stroud, Reprieve
• James Wood, Herbert Smith Freehills

Day 2: Tuesday 29 April

10:00-11:30 Judicial Review: International law in domestic courts

This session will look at international law in domestic courts in a range of areas, including how senior courts interpret or follow Strasbourg, and how interventions in judicial review can be used to bring in international law dimensions to domestic cases.

• Chair: Dr Lewis Graham, University of Cambridge
• Annie Fendrich, JUSTICE
• Hugh Southey KC, Matrix Chambers 
• Ahmed Ali, Deighton Pierce Glynn

14:00-15:30 Public law and the planet: Tackling climate change and environmental damage

“We’re putting an end to this challenge culture by taking on the nimby and a broken system that has slowed down our progress as a nation.” 

This session looks at cutting edge environmental litigation where the law is being used creatively, often as part of wider campaigning, and the practicalities of working with communities to enforce and develop the law. We’ll also how the Government’s prioritization of the growth agenda conflicts with people’s rights, environmental protection, and ultimately, the net-zero objective?   

• Chair: Ruchi Parekh, Cornerstone Barristers
• Laura Neal, Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland
• Ravi Mehta, Blackstone Chambers
• Richard Honey KC, Francis Taylor Building 
• Estelle Dehon KC, Cornerstone Barristers
• Celine O’Donovan, Leigh Day 

Day 3: Wednesday 30 April

10:00-11:30 Urgent judicial review

Lawyers are often (and quite naturally) nervous about out-of-hours applications and urgent JR. This session will look at practical aspects across immigration, homelessness and housing, and applying for urgent interim relief.

• Chair: Emma Mockford, Brick Court Chambers
• Donnchadh Greene, Doughty Street Chambers
• Raza Halim, Garden Court Chambers
• Daniel Clarke, Doughty Street Chambers
• Derek Bernardi, Lawstop
• Bahar Ata, Duncan Lewis

14:00-15:30: Working with communities through judicial review and public law

This session looks at a range of public law legal processes, from judicial review, to consultations, and inquests, to show how lawyers can work effectively with communities to enable their rights and ensure their voices contribute to public decision making.

• Chair: Barbara Bolton, JustRight Scotland
• Carralyn Parkes, Portland Town Councillor and former Mayor of Portland
• Emily Soothill, Deighton Pierce Glynn
• Oliver Carter, Irwin Mitchell
• Jodie Anderson, Inquest
• Katrina Ffrench, UNJUST UK