ABSTRACT
Parliament itself may provide a complainant with a remedy at the time it invests a body with power by way of legislation. Such a remedy may take the form of an appeal from the decision. Such appeal may be general in nature or restricted to a point of law only. Appeal may lie to, for example, a minister, a tribunal or a court. An appeal, it must be remembered, is to be distinguished from the power of judicial review. On appeal, the merits of the decision may be considered. On review, the courts are, in theory, concerned with only the legality of the decision (eg was the decision reached intra vires and in accordance with natural justice) and not with whether the decision is right or wrong on the merits.
