Ms Angela Denning:

We need to remember that judicial review does not just apply to planning matters; judicial review applies to any decision. It is an oversight provided by the Constitution to ensure that power does not go to any of our heads. The important part is that supervisory power. As long as decision makers stick within the guardrails of what they are supposed to do, judicial review will not work. The other side of it is if public bodies are under pressure to make decisions quickly, they say that mistakes are more inclined to be made, they do not have time to train staff and so on. It all feeds into the system. We need to remember that judicial review is a very important component of our democratic set-up.