Public Interest in UK Courts
Lead Research Organisation:
Queen's University Belfast
Department Name: Sch of Law
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Anthony, GK
(2013)
Public Interest and the Three Dimensions of Judicial Review
in Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
Anthony, Gordon; Auby, Jean-Bernard; Morison, John; Zwart, Tom
(2011)
Values in Global Administrative Law
Dimitrios Doukas (Author)
(2012)
In a bet there is a fool and a state monopoly : are the odds stacked against cross-border gambling?
in European law review
Gordon Anthony (Author)
(2010)
Public interest and judicial review
| Description | The project was intended to provide an insight into the different ways in which the term "the public interest" is used by UK courts. We discovered the following (and recurring) uses, viz "public interest": • as a justification for derogating from fundamental freedoms under the EU treaties; • as a justification for limiting qualified rights under the ECHR; • as underpinning governmental choices in the field of, for instance, international relations; • as determining matters of judicial review procedure (standing, protective costs orders, third party interventions); • as a basis for withholding evidence in legal proceedings (public interest immunity); • and as a defence in freedom of expression cases (such as defamation proceedings and privacy proceedings). See further the project's findings at http://publicinterest.info/ |
| Exploitation Route | The project's work on the meaning of "public interest" has been, and can be, used as the basis for other research projects. For instance, Anthony has since been involved in an AHRC funded project on "Amnesties, Prosecutions, and the Public Interest in the Northern Ireland Transition", and a further collaborative project on "The Public Interest in Private Law" is proposed. Both of these projects have borrowed from the results of this project, and others could do likewise. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Education Environment Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
| URL | http://publicinterest.info/ |
| Description | Our findings have been used in three main ways: 1. As the basis for the range of academic publications noted in this report. These have since been added to by the publication of G Anthony, 'Public Interest and the Three Dimensions of Judicial Review' (2013) 64 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 125-142. 2. As the material that came to populate the project's web-site, at http://publicinterest.info/. 3. As the basis for presentations and talks in Northern Ireland, the UK more widely, and at European Universities. For instance, in August/September 2016, Anthony taught a course on "the law of the public interest" at the Academy of European Public Law, Greece. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
| Sector | Education,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal |