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Challenges to the decisions made by a public authority, generally made by Judicial Review.  Where the State makes a decision that does not have a right of appeal, that decision may be challenged by way of Judicial Review as soon as possible and in any event within three months. 

Ombudsman 

Before a judicial review can be commenced you must exhaust all appeal rights. In some cases this requires that the a challenge to the decision is made to an ombudsman. The ombudsman conduct reviews of the decision making process and determine if there has been an error in the decision. 

Judicial Review

If applications go wrong, they can be subject to appeal, or if there is no right of appeal, administrative review. If that review is refused then the only further option is to Judicial Review the refusal. That requires an application to either the Upper Tribunal, or in some cases the High Court.

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Habeas corpus

Habeas corpus literally means to bring the body before the Court. It is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.

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