Mr. Conor Linehan:

It is probably useful to note as well that leave applications for judicial review are now quite a bit different from what they were maybe ten or 15 years ago when one or two grounds might have been raised. Now, they tend to be complex. The environmental NGO sector, judicial review applicants and the public generally have become much more conversant and knowledgeable about EU environmental law and national planning law. Therefore, applications for leave rarely tend to be confined to one or two grounds. They tend to be very comprehensive applications for judicial review and they take time in themselves.