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Administrative Court judicial review: CPR Part 54 checklist on time limits, promptness and applications to extend claim forms and acknowledgements of service (England and Wales)

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This Checklist sets out the principal procedural steps and considerations for parties preparing or answering a request to extend time in judicial review claims before the Administrative Court. It should be read alongside Practice Note: Judicial review time limits—extensions and urgent cases.

Time limits for bringing claims and the requirement to act 'promptly'

Where proceedings are started in the High Court, the claim form must be lodged promptly and, in any case, no later than three months from the date the grounds first arose, subject to the shorter periods below:
- challenges to planning decisions must be issued within six weeks of the date the grounds to bring the claim first arose
- challenges to procurement decisions under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 must be brought within 30 days of the date the grounds to bring the claim first arose...

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Olivia Carter

Bevan Brittan LLP

I am a Partner in the Litigation, Advisory and Regulatory department at Bevan Brittan LLP specialising in public law and representing a broad range of clients including local authorities, statutory regulators, NHS commissioners, NHS providers and universities. I have acted on numerous complex judicial review challenges relating to decisions on funding, large-scale outsourcing projects, the restructuring of public bodies and cuts to public services. In particular I acted for the council in R (Nash) v London Borough of Barnet [2013] and I am currently advising Northern Eastern Western Devon CCG in respect of challenges to its decision to make changes to inpatient services in community hospitals. I regularly advise clients on contentious procurement issues, risk and dispute avoidance, and have considerable experience of procurement challenges commenced under the Public Contracts Regulations 2006. I represented Mears in Mears v Leeds City Council [2011] and am...

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