Publisher's Synopsis
As the Crown Office increases in importance in litigation, every public authority and litigation practitioner needs to consider the availability and utility of taking proceedings in the Crown Office. "Crown Office Proceedings" is a work on the practice and procedure of the Crown Office.;The Crown Office deals with over 2000 cases each year including all proceedings before the Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division as well as almost every judicial review application in the High Court. Its procedure is governed by a separate body of rules and specialized principles. Its extensive jurisdiction also covers appeals under R.S.C. Orders 55 and 94, habeas corpus, proceedings by way of case stated, contempt and wide number of statutory applications. Cases appearing in the Crown Office List now cover areas as diverse as housing, immigration, mental health, coroners, social security and High Court planning appeals. Increasingly, too, judicial review is employed in the commercial world and in areas of overlap between European and UK law such as human rights and the construction of E.E.C. regulations and directives.;Crown Office Proceedings includes individual parts on judicial review, habeas corpus, statutory appeals, statutory review, case stated and contempt proceedings.
