ABSTRACT
The Supreme Court Act 1981 provides that the court must not grant leave for an application for judicial review ‘unless it considers that the applicant has a sufficient interest [otherwise expressed as “standing” or locus standi] in the matter to which the application relates’. The justification for such a requirement lies in the need to limit challenges to administrative decision making to genuine cases of grievance and to avoid unnecessary interference in the administrative process by those whose objectives are not authentic. The applicant may be an individual whose personal rights and interests have been affected by a decision, or an individual concerned with official decisions which affect the interests of society as a whole. Alternatively, the application may be brought by an interest or pressure group desiring to challenge a decision which affects the rights and interests of members of that group or society at large.
