Attorney General Rossa Fanning said there is 'a view that the common good is being sacrificed on the altar of individual rights'. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Photos
The amount of planning and environmental judicial review litigation is “of significant political and public concern”, the Attorney General has said.
If a point has been reached where the courts are “too often being used as an institutional filibuster, by litigants who seek only to delay and obstruct”, it is “perfectly reasonable for politicians to consider whether our judicial review model strikes the right balance”, Rossa Fanning has said.
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