Winning a judicial review is only half the story. Even where a public body has clearly acted unlawfully, a remedy is never automatic — the court chooses what, if anything, to grant, and a claimant can be entirely in the right yet walk away with nothing. For a solicitor advising a client, knowing which remedy fits the situation, and how likely the court is to grant it, is what turns a legal point into a practical result.
This lesson takes you through the full toolkit and the rules that govern it:
- Overview and Procedural Requirements — the two families of remedies, plus the time limit and standing rules a claim must clear first.
- Prerogative Remedies — quashing, mandatory and prohibiting orders, and what each one does.
- Ordinary Remedies — declarations and injunctions, and when each is the right choice.
- Managing the Quashing Order — when a court can substitute its own decision and how suspended quashing orders work.
- Discretionary Bars to Relief — the reasons a court may refuse a remedy despite unlawfulness.
- Interim Relief — protecting a client's position before the final hearing.
- Damages and Costs — when money is available and who pays at the end.