Executive Decision-Making and the Courts

In this book, leading experts from across the common law world assess the impact of four seminal House of Lords judgments decided in the 1960s: Ridge v Baldwin, Padfeld v Minister of Agriculture, Conway v Rimmer, and Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission. The ''Quartet'' is generally acknowledged to have marked a turning point in the development of court-centred administrative law, and can b...