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Attentiveness to reasons given (including competing priorities at the level of purpose / policy) Resistance to filling gaps or setting limits w/ independently discovered “right answers”. Tolerance for different (& efficient) reasoning paths. And yet, insistence on justification (including proportionality) . . .
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- Reasonableness, Weight, and The Structure of Judicial Review
- Purpose, Relevancy, Reasonableness, and Weight: The Argument
- Purpose, Relevancy, Reasonableness, and Weight: Possible Responses
- Reasonableness, Weight, and The Case Law
- Reasonableness, Proportionality, and Incommensurability
- Reasonableness, Proportionality, and Review
- Conclusion
There is a wealth of literature exploring proportionality, but considerably less dealing with reasonableness, 1 even though the latter is a central feature of judicial review. The very nature of reasonableness review nonetheless remains contested. Consider in this respect two distinct albeit related propositions. There is the claim that weight and ...
We begin with the relationship between reasonableness and weight, or more exactly the relevance of weight for the determination of reasonableness review. Lord Steyn in Daly , 9 as is well known, stated that rationality and proportionality were differentiated inter alia because the latter could require the court to pay attention to the relative weig...
Reasonableness review can, as is well known, connote the totality of review for propriety of purpose, relevancy and Wednesbury unreasonableness, what I have termed the umbrella sense of reasonableness. 17 The term reasonableness review can also be used to mean judicial control over and beyond review for purpose and relevancy. This architecture of r...
There are four possible responses to the preceding argument, but none are successful in this regard. It might be argued that there is some tertium quid or third element between relevancy and weight, such that even though the assumption in reasonableness review is that the consideration has been adjudged relevant this does not lead to the conclusion...
The Reality of Reasonableness Case Law: The General Approach
We can now consider the way in which the courts undertake reasonableness review in the light of the preceding analysis. There is nothing special about the cases discussed below. They are just examples. It is not relevant whether the claimant wins or loses, nor is it relevant whether the cases concern human rights or not. The cases are concerned with weight and balance, although the type of case (rights-based, anxious scrutiny, non-rights-based) will perforce affect the relative ease or diffic...
The Reality of Reasonableness Case Law: Resources and Weight
There are a number of cases that bear on the issue of resources and weight in the context of judicial review. Three types of case should be disaggregated in this respect. There are cases dealing with whether the amount of available resources is a consideration that can be taken into account under a particular statute. This is decided as a matter of statutory interpretation. The decisions are not immediately pertinent to the present analysis. They are concerned with the very scope of relevant...
The Reality of Reasonableness Case Law: Daly
We can now return to Lord Steyn in Daly , 61 who stated that proportionality could require the court to pay attention to the relative weight accorded to relevant interests, in a manner not done under the traditional approach to review, and could require the reviewing court to assess the balance struck by the decision-maker, not merely whether it was within the range of reasonable decisions. Daly was inextricably linked with the need to deal with Smith and Grady,62 where the ECtHR decided that...
The fact that reasonableness review entails consideration of weight and balance necessitates consideration of incommensurability, since the classic objection to proportionality, viz that it requires the court to balance incommensurable values, is equally applicable to reasonableness review. There is much of philosophical value written about incomme...
We can now reconsider the debate 84concerning whether proportionality should become a general head of review, a step that I favour, in the light of the preceding analysis. It is important at the outset to address arguments concerning the legitimacy of introducing proportionality as a general head of review in UK law. There are two facets to this ar...
There will be no attempt to summarize the entirety of the argument in this article. Suffice it to say for the present that debate will doubtless continue as to the scope/intensity of judicial review of discretionary power and of the medium through which this should be expressed, whether reasonableness or proportionality. This article has sought to ...
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reasonableness review is much less cabined. And the reasonableness approach to administrative law is a challenge to the merits of the plausible reasons to do such cabining. Second, reason’s capaciousness broadens the permissible scope of legal inquiry. Reasonableness admits constraints, legal and otherwise, that we all
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Reasonable legal minds agree that reasonableness is one of the foundational concepts of American law, infiltrating everything from administrative, corporate, and constitutional law to crimes, torts, and contracts.1 Yet the concept’s importance and prevalence have not necessarily bred clarity. In fact, a recent flurry of analytic ...
Oct 26, 2014 · A court conducting a review for reasonableness inquires into the qualities that make a decision reasonable, referring both to the process of articulating the reasons and to outcomes. In judicial review, reasonableness is concerned mostly with the existence of justification, transparency and intelligibility within the decision-making process.
Sep 21, 2020 · The nature of reasonableness review in administrative law has long been obscured behind vivid but uninformative descriptions. In recent years, courts and commentators have recognised that reasonableness review involves assessment of the weight and balance of reasons bearing on a decision.
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Mar 3, 2020 · Because science informs that inquiry, this Essay explores the biological origins of reasonableness by probing three of its key connotations: sensibleness, fairness, and moderation. The first meaning evokes mankind’s integrated cognitive faculties; the second addresses humanity’s reflexive values; and the third entails the coordinative ...
