Tom's comments were published in Global Legal Insights, 21 May, and can be found here.
"The UK’s proposed limitation of judicial review demonstrates a targeted effort to refine, rather than displace, established rule of law principles. By curbing unmeritorious or repetitive challenges, the reforms seek to enhance certainty in the delivery of nationally significant energy and infrastructure projects.
"It’s hard to ignore the political drivers pushing the Labour Government to this approach, but Nelsonian blind to that, it maintains judicial oversight in principle while introducing greater predictability for cross-border investors and developers operating within the UK’s planning regime."