Natsai Manyarara (2001)
Natsai Manyarara (2001) The Supreme Court handed down the judgment in R (Cart) v. Upper Tribunal [2011] UKSC 28 on 22 June 2011. The case concerned the circumstances in which the unappealable decisions of the Upper Tribunal are amenable to judicial review in the High Court. The respondent submitted that the following the establishment of the Upper Tribunal by the Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 judicial review was only available in the wholly exceptional circumstances of an outright excess of jurisdiction or a procedural irregularity which denied the right to a fair hearing. The Appellant argued that, in the absence of an express ouster clause in the 2007 Act, judicial review should remain available on ordinary grounds, or alternatively that the same approach should be taken as in the case of second appeals, namely that permission to bring the claim should be granted if it raises an important point of principle or practice or there is some other compelling reason for the High Court to hear the claim. The Supreme Court (L Phillips PSC, L Hope DPSC and L Rodger, L Hale, L Brown, L Clarke & L Dyson JJSC) accepted the Appellant’s alternative submission and held that the same test as for second appeals should be applied by the High Court in considering applications for permission to bring a judicial review claim against an unappealable decision of the Upper Tribunal. Natsai Manyarara, led by Manjit Gill QC represented the appellant (MR (Pakistan).






