NI: New paper argues Attorney General ought to be amenable to judicial review
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The Attorney General’s amenability to judicial review is the subject of a paper by Conor McCormick, a PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast.
In “Reviewing the reviewability of the Attorney General for Northern Ireland” Mr McCormick (pictured) looks at the historic view of the Attorney General’s powers. He then looks to the emerging view of the courts; namely that “the reviewability of the Attorney General’s varied functions might henceforth be decided on a case-by-case basis and with varying degrees of intensity”.
Mr McCormick welcomes any comments from ILN readers on the central thesis of his paper: that the Attorney General for Northern Ireland ought to be subject to a certain level of judicial review in some circumstances.
The paper is available to download in the January 2018 issue of Public Law, on Westlaw.
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