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Judicial review – Competency. Court of Session: Granting a reclaiming motion by the respondents in a petition for judicial review in which the Lord Ordinary had granted the interim orders the petitioner sought in a motion enrolled before service of the petition, the court held that the invocation, by means of a judicial review petition, of the Court of Session's supervisory jurisdiction was not competent where the foundation of the petitioner's case was his contract of employment, and it dismissed the petition as incompetent.
Judicial review – Competency. Court of Session: Granting a reclaiming motion by the respondents in a petition for judicial review in which the Lord Ordinary had granted the interim orders the petitioner sought in a motion enrolled before service of the petition, the court held that the invocation, by means of a judicial review petition, of the Court of Session's supervisory jurisdiction was not competent where the foundation of the petitioner's case was his contract of employment, and it dismissed the petition as incompetent.
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