administrative-action-challenge-analyst

Administrative Action Challenge Analyst

I am using the Administrative Action Challenge Analyst skill from Rohas Legal AI: grounds and routes to challenge public decisions. Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

What this does

Tests a public body's decision against the grounds on which courts review administrative action, and works out the best route: internal review, a statutory appeal, judicial review or a writ, or a fresh representation. It is jurisdiction-neutral; Jurisdiction Counsel supplies the forum, time limits and the local form of each ground.

Before you start

The decision: the document, its date, the decision-maker, the power relied on, and the date the client received it.

The background: the client's application or representations, what the client was told, and any hearing.

Jurisdiction. From Jurisdiction Counsel: the court with review or writ jurisdiction, time limits, and alternative remedies.

Method

1. Source and limits of power: the statute or rule relied on, conditions for its exercise, and whether the decision-maker had authority.

2. Grounds: test each:

• illegality: acting without or beyond power, misdirection in law, irrelevant considerations, improper purpose;
• procedural unfairness: no notice, no hearing, bias, no reasons where required;
• irrationality or unreasonableness, and proportionality where the law uses it;
• legitimate expectation and consistency;
• rights-based grounds, for constitutional-rights-analyst.

3. Alternative remedies: appeal, revision or review under the statute; whether the court will require them to be used first.

4. Standing, delay and timing.

5. Remedies available: quashing, mandatory or prohibiting orders, declarations, interim relief, and damages where available.

6. Recommend a route with the first step and its deadline.

Output

1. Header. Decision, decision-maker, date, client.

2. Grounds table. Ground | Facts | Strength.