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Human Rights, Public Law, and Administrative Burden: In the matter of an application by JR87 and another for Judicial Review

Cassandra Somers‐Joce & Joe Tomlinson

The Modern Law Review2026https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.70032article
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The UK Supreme Court's judgment in In the matter of an application by JR87 and another for Judicial Review , that religious education in Northern Ireland breached the Human Rights Act 1998, turned in significant part on a disconnect between statutory rights and administrative reality. While the judgment is a landmark in the history of the teaching of religion in state schools in Northern Ireland and a significant case in the growing corpus of human rights jurisprudence on religious education, this case note demonstrates how it also reveals the neglected salience of administrative burden – an idea central to public administration theory – to the practice of contemporary public law.

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@article{cassandra2026,
  title        = {{Human Rights, Public Law, and Administrative Burden: In the matter of an application by JR87 and another for Judicial Review}},
  author       = {Cassandra Somers‐Joce & Joe Tomlinson},
  journal      = {The Modern Law Review},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.70032},
}

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