An analysis of judicial restraint in the doctrine of substantive legitimate expectations in the UK and Hong Kong

• Main Author: CHNG, Wei Yao, Kenny
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Public Law and Legal Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3379
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The substantive legitimate expectations doctrine has become a fixed feature in the judicial review landscape of the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Yet judges in other common law jurisdictions have expressed reservations about the doctrine in view of its potential to intrude into the merits of decisio...