Legal Culture, Legality and the Determination of the Grounds of Judicial Review of Administrative Action in England and Australia (eBook)

Dr. Voraphol Malsukhum is currently a lecturer at Chulalongkorn University, teaching an array of public law courses and conducting various researches in the field of Comparative Administrative Law. He also serves as secretary of the Faculty's Executive Board of Director and associate editor of Chulalongkorn Law Journal. His legal practice experience includes being part of the legal research team for The Legal Counsel Committee for the Prime Minister of Thailand (H.E. Abhisit Vejjajiva) and The Advisory Panel of the Thai Constitution for the Purpose of Political Harmonisation, The Royal Thai Government

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This book presents a navigating framework of legal culture and legality to facilitate a comprehensive understanding of the English and Australian determination of the grounds of judicial review.This book facilitates tangible process of how and why jurisdictional error, jurisdictional fact, proportionality and substantive legitimate expectations are debatable in English law, while they are either completely rejected or firmly entrenched in Australian law. This book argues that these differences are not just random. Legality is not just a fig-leaf, but is profoundly rooted in legal systems legal culture; hence, it dictates the way in which courts empower, justify, constrain or limit the scope of judicial review.This book presents evidence that courts differ in legal systems and apply diverse ways to determine the scope of judicial review based on their deep understanding of legality, which is embedded in the legal culture of their legal system. This book uses comparative methodology and develops this framework between English and Australian law.Although obvious and important, this book presents a kind of examination that has never been undertaken in this depth and detail before.