Judicial review of internal competition for the promotion of prison officers dismissed where applicants had no legitimate expectation

Employment law – judicial review – internal competition for the promotion of prison officers to the position of Work Training Officer – review mechanisms of recruitment and selection processes – Review of Selection Process – Interview Boards – whether the applicants had a legitimate expectation that the appointments would be made on merit as a result of fair and transparent processes arising from the Commission’s Code of Practice – doctrine of legitimate expectation – Judicial Review of Administrative Action (a comparative analysis), 3rd. Ed, (Roundhall, 2013) Biehler – s. 11 of the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act, 2004 – preliminary application to strike out on the grounds of being moot – failure to move application within the time – status of the report of the Commission on Public Service Appointments – proceedings were brought within the time allowed by the Rules of the Superior Courts – applicants are precluded from relying on Commission's report by reason of s. 48(2) of the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act, 2004 – applicants have not established any legitimate expectation or breach of same by way of the operation of the competition in question – proceedings dismissed.