AC-2025-LON-003228 - [2025] EWHC 2569 (Admin)

There is a part-ouster of judicial review in relation to claims against the Crown Court – in s.29(3) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 – but nobody says that I lack jurisdiction in the present case. My attention has been invited to a number of cases where there are judicial review challenges to crown court decisions relating to bail. The most recent is R (W) v Croydon Crown Court [2024] EWHC 3373 (Admin), where the Court specifically addresses the part-ouster. This claim is not cutting across the conduct of any trial on indictment. There was no trial. It is not cutting across the outcome – such as conviction or sentence – or any appeal rights or limitations in relation to trial outcome. I accept the judicial review is available. And, as I said at the beginning, I accept that all of the conventional judicial review grounds are open to the Claimant.