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Authorisation of drone strikes, granting consent to Donald Trump to construct a golf course, a refusal to register a Scientology chapel as a place of religious worship and intimate relationships maintained by undercover police - all of these have been subject to judicial review, which is a way to challenge the decisions made by public bodies. The court is able to review the legality of a decision, such as whether the body had the power to make it and whether it infringes an individual’s rights, rather than determining whether it is right or wrong. If you want to challenge a decision because you feel it is incorrect, this maybe isn’t the proper route. Even if a decision is ruled to be illegal, the public body may make the same decision again but in a legalised way.