§ Ms HodgeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions in each Session since 1991–92 legislation has been introduced into Parliament by his Department, with the purpose of(a) removing the effects of a judicial review decision or (b) implementing a judicial review decision; and if he will list the relevant legislative provisions. [33588]
§ Mr. Howard[holding answer 19 June 1996]: We do not hold central records of the occasions on which legislation has been introduced to remove the effect of a judicial review decision. The only legislation which appears to have been enacted for that purpose is section 158(3) and (4) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which removed the effect of R v. stipendiary magistrates ex parte Vesna Doklega (1994), unreported, and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act 1995, which removed the effect of the decision in the House of Lords in R v. Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Fire Brigades Union and other [1995], 2WLR464. There have been no occasions on which legislation has implemented a judicial review decision because the decision itself is implemented by order of the court.