Legitimate Expectations in the Common Law World

Matthew Groves is Professor of Public Law at LaTrobe University.Greg Weeks is Senior Lecturer in the ANU College of Law at the Australian National University.

• 1. The Legitimate Expectation as an Instrument and Illustration of Common Law Change Matthew Groves and Greg Weeks2. In Search of a Doctrine: Mapping the Law of Legitimate Expectations Jason NE Varuhas3. Legitimate Expectations and the Separation of Powers in English and Welsh Administrative Law Robert Thomas4. Substantive Fairness: A Case for Reconsidering the Breach between English and Australian Law Kristina Stern SC and Joanna Davidson5. A Pluralist Account of Deference and Legitimate Expectations Paul Daly6. Proportionality and Legitimate Expectations Janina Boughey7. What Can We Legitimately Expect from the State? Greg Weeks8. The Unruly Horse and the Gordian Knot: Legitimate Expectations in South Africa Cora Hoexter9. Law of Legitimate Expectation in New Zealand Philip A Joseph10. From Heresy to Orthodoxy: Substantive Legitimate Expectations in the United Kingdom Mark Elliott11. The (Fictitious) Doctrine of Substantive Legitimate Expectations in India Chintan Chandrachud12. Contrasting Responses to the ‘Coughlan Moment’: Legitimate Expectations in Hong Kong and Singapore Swati Jhaveri13. Legitimate Expectations in Canada: Soft Law and Tax Administration Sas Ansari and Lorne Sossin14. Legitimate Expectations in Australia: Overtaken by Formalism and Pragmatism Matthew Groves

This excellent collection of essays provides a scholarly account of the concept’s travels around the common law world and the debates it has provoked.