Vindicating Individual Rights by Reformulating the Test on Legitimate Expectations

Iseult O’Callaghan[1]   1. Introduction  In the leading UK authority on the law of legitimate expectations, R v North and East Devon Health Authority, ex p Coughlan,[2] Lord Woolf MR established that the court will enforce a lawful promise or practice which has induced a legitimate expectation of a benefit if the ‘requirement of fairness’ outweighs… More Vindicating Individual Rights by Reformulating the Test on Legitimate Expectations