Judicial Review: Controversial Definitions

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udicial review has had some bad presslately. The term, in its broadest sense,reers to the power o judges to review theacts o the other branches o government.Some orms o judicial review, such as review o administrative decisions to assess their conormity with legislation, are relatively uncontroversial.Others, such as the power o judges to strike downor modiy statutes or violating constitutionalrights, are ar more contentious.The latter orm o judicial review has been widely criticised or allowing ‘activist’ judgesto impose their moral and political views onthe community. My academic colleague James Allan has virtually made a career out o attackingrights-based judicial review, 1 while the legalphilosopher Tom Campbell has denounced judicialactivism