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Judicial Review: Procedure Guide
There are lots of reasons why a judicial review case may be urgent;
for example, the three month time-limit may be about to expire, someone
may need a service urgently, or the public authority may be about
to do something which would be difficult to reverse if it goes ahead.
In urgent cases one or more of the following may happen:
1. In appropriate cases, we can begin the
court proceedings very quickly after you initially instruct
us (and in exceptional cases, sometimes on the same day).
2. When we begin the court proceedings we can ask for the normal
court timetable to be shortened. For example, by giving the
opponent seven days rather than twenty one days to provide its
Acknowledgment of Service and by asking a judge to arrange a
hearing much more quickly than normal.
3. We can also help you apply for an immediate, temporary court
order called an ‘injunction’. An injunction will
require the opponent to immediately take a particular step (for
example, to provide an urgent service) or to stop doing something
(for example, to put on hold a new policy or the implementation
of a decision). Injunctions help to maintain the status quo
until the final decision is made about the claim for judicial
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