{"id":713829,"date":"2022-06-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/jun\/23\/dramatic-fall-in-successful-high-court-challenges-to-government-policy"},"modified":"2022-06-23T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:00:00","slug":"dramatic-fall-in-successful-high-court-challenges-to-government-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/23\/dramatic-fall-in-successful-high-court-challenges-to-government-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic fall in successful high court challenges to government policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Drop prompts warnings ministers\u2019 attacks on lawyers could be having chilling effect on judges<\/p><p>Successful high court challenges to government policy and decisions by public bodies have fallen dramatically, prompting warnings that ministers\u2019 attacks on lawyers could be having a chilling effect on judges.<\/p><p>The proportion of civil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2020\/feb\/11\/what-is-judicial-review-and-why-doesnt-the-government-like-it\">judicial reviews<\/a> in England and Wales, excluding immigration cases, which claimants won out of total claims lodged fell by 50% on 2020, according to analysis seen by the Guardian. The figure is 26% if the success rate is measured out of cases that went to a final hearing.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/jun\/23\/dramatic-fall-in-successful-high-court-challenges-to-government-policy\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/jun\/23\/dramatic-fall-in-successful-high-court-challenges-to-government-policy\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Drop prompts warnings ministers\u2019 attacks on lawyers could be having chilling effect on judgesSuccessful high court challenges to government policy and decisions by public bodies have fallen dramatically, prompting warnings that ministers\u2019 at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1727,6,10477,640,14,3386,44425,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713830,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713829\/revisions\/713830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}