Clause 10 - Unification of appeal system
Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill
11:00 am
Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk, Conservative)
A moment ago, the Minister said that Wade and Dicey supported his case. I have here the Library's copy of the Wade and Forsyth book. The chapter on ouster clauses and protective and preclusive clauses specifically says:
''The Anisminic case''—
which was the leading case—
''and its sequels were the culmination of the judicial insistence, so often emphasised in this work, that administrative agencies and tribunals must at all costs be prevented from being sole judges of the validity of their own acts.''
Is not that the point, and does not it completely destroy the Minister's point?