Judicial review pre-action template letters: decisions, delays and challenging decisions

How to use these resources

If you are an adviser

Some of our template letters are published on the site for you to download. The others are available on request from: [email protected]. When using the templates, please follow these steps:

1. Email a summary of the case (including the date of the decision you want to challenge) to [email protected].
2. We'll email you to advise whether a pre-action letter is appropriate, and will either check that the template you planned to use is the most suitable or help you identify whether we have a relevant template.
3. If a pre-action letter is appropriate, we can review your client’s evidence, and either support you to complete the letter template, or to draft your own letter.
4. Even if a pre-action letter is not appropriate, we'd be happy to send you any of the templates if they'd help you challenge the decision in a different way.

If you are a benefit claimant please find an adviser to support you as our judicial review project can only work with advisers. You may be able to find an adviser on advicelocal.uk.

Advisers in Scotland
The judicial review project covers England and Wales. If you're an adviser working in Scotland and want to use our template letters, please use them with caution as the pre-action protocol doesn't apply in Scotland. See Advisers in Scotland using the judicial review letter templates. We'd be happy to send you any of the templates which are not currently available to download.