The following table shows the number of judicial review cases brought against the Department and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the last 10 years. Information on whether the decisions challenged in these applications were upheld is not held centrally.
| Department of Health | MHRA |
2004 | 49 | 1 |
2005 | 44 | 0 |
2006 | 68 | 2 |
2007 | 41 | 2 |
2008 | 31 | 4 |
2009 | 38 | 1 |
2010 | 35 | 2 |
2011 | 26 | 3 |
2012 | 27 | 0 |
2013 (to date) | 12 | 1 |
Five of the Department's arm's length bodies (ALBs) have had applications for judicial review brought against them during the last 10 years. The following tables show how many applications have been brought against them and whether the decisions challenged in such applications were upheld.
2008 | 0 | 0 |
2009 | (1)1 | 0 |
2010 | 0 | 0 |
2011 | 0 | 0 |
2012 | 0 | 0 |
2013 | (2)1 | 0 |
(1) One application was made in 2009. The decision challenged in the application was partially amended by HPA during the review proceedings but the decision was—to the extent not amended—upheld both by the Administrative Court and the Court of Appeal. (2) One application has been made in 2013. The case is still at the permission stage and was made prior to 31 March 2013 before the formation of PHE. |
ALB: Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority |
| Number of applications for judicial review | Number of decisions challenged where applications upheld |
2004 | 1 | 0 |
2005 | 0 | 0 |
2006 | 0 | 0 |
2007 | 4 | 1 |
2008 | 1 | 1 |
2009 | 1 | 0 |
2010 | 0 | 0 |
2011 | 2 | 0 |
2012 | 1 | 0 |
2013 | 1 | 0 |
ALB: NHS Litigation Authority |
| Number of applications for judicial review | Number of decisions challenged where applications upheld |
2004 | 3 | 0 |
2005 | 4 | 0 |
2006 | 8 | 2 |
2007 | 4 | 1 |
2008 | 1 | 0 |
2009 | 0 | 0 |
2010 | 3 | 0 |
2011 | 4 | 0 |
2012 | 3 | 1 |
2013 | 2 | (1)0 |
(1) One ongoing. |
ALB: Monitor |
| Number of applications for judicial review | Number of decisions challenged where applications upheld |
2004 | 0 | 0 |
2005 | 0 | 0 |
2006 | 0- | 0 |
2007 | 0 | 0 |
2008 | 1 | 0 |
2009 | 0 | 0 |
2010 | 0 | 0 |
2011 | 0 | 0 |
2012 | 0 | 0 |
2013 | 0 | 0 |
2008 | 0 | 0 |
2009 | 3 | 1 |
2010 | 0 | 0 |
2011 | 0 | 0 |
2012 | 0 | 0 |
2013 | 0 | 0 |