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Give an analysis of the case law to show the grounds upon which an application for review can be made.  

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"There is no prescribed constitutional relationship between the courts and the executive, but the judges assert their inherent power, derived from the rule of law, to review executive actions" Madgwick and Woodhouse, "The law and politics of the Constitution," page 107. Give an analysis of the case law to show the grounds upon which an application for review can be made. The question starts off by giving us an element of the separation of powers when it says that there is no prescribed constitutional relationship between the courts and the executives. The concept of separation of powers propounded by Montesquieu, the French political philosopher, has three main criteria: (i) There are three main classes of governmental functions: the legislature, the executive and the judicial. (ii) There are (or should be) three main organs of government in a state: the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary. (iii) To concentrate more than one class of function in any one...

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