The Constitution Unit

Judicial review, human rights and judiciary

Episode Summary

The second panel of our conference on Johnson's constitutional reform agenda looked at the government's recent review of administrative law and programme for reform of human rights and the judiciary.

Episode Notes

This is a recording of a panel session from our conference looking at the government's constitutional reform agenda. The panel discussed the government's review of administrative law and programme for reform of human rights and the judiciary.  

Speakers:

• Lord Faulks QC, Chair of Independent Review of Administrative Law
• Prof Kate O’Regan, Director of Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford
• Joshua Rozenberg QC (Hon), legal commentator and journalist

Chair: Prof Catherine Barnard, UKICE.

The two-day conference was jointly organised with the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Oxford University and UK in a Changing Europe.  This episode was recorded on 17 June 2021. 

Suggested reading: 

• How do you solve a problem like judicial review reform? Constitution Unit blogpost written by Joe Tomlinson and Lewis Graham.
• IRAL: The Panel Report and the Government’s Response, written by Paul Craig for the UKCLA blog.