Table of Contents

1. The Legitimate Expectation as an Instrument and Illustration of Common Law Change
Matthew Groves and Greg Weeks
2. In Search of a Doctrine: Mapping the Law of Legitimate Expectations
Jason NE Varuhas
3. Legitimate Expectations and the Separation of Powers in English and Welsh Administrative Law
Robert Thomas
4. Substantive Fairness: A Case for Reconsidering the Breach between English and Australian Law
Kristina Stern SC and Joanna Davidson
5. A Pluralist Account of Deference and Legitimate Expectations
Paul Daly
6. Proportionality and Legitimate Expectations
Janina Boughey
7. What Can We Legitimately Expect from the State?
Greg Weeks
8. The Unruly Horse and the Gordian Knot: Legitimate Expectations in South Africa
Cora Hoexter
9. Law of Legitimate Expectation in New Zealand
Philip A Joseph
10. From Heresy to Orthodoxy: Substantive Legitimate Expectations in the United Kingdom
Mark Elliott
11. The (Fictitious) Doctrine of Substantive Legitimate Expectations in India
Chintan Chandrachud
12. Contrasting Responses to the ‘Coughlan Moment’: Legitimate Expectations in Hong Kong and Singapore
Swati Jhaveri
13. Legitimate Expectations in Canada: Soft Law and Tax Administration
Sas Ansari and Lorne Sossin
14. Legitimate Expectations in Australia: Overtaken by Formalism and Pragmatism
Matthew Groves

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A detailed scholarly analysis of legitimate expectations by courts.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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.
*Australian Journal of Administrative Law*