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The right of people to mount legal challenges to decisions taken about them by public authorities is to be restricted, David Cameron will announce today.

The Prime Minister will risk criticism from human-rights groups by calling for the use of judicial review to be curtailed as part of a plan for "faster government" to boost economic growth.

Addressing the CBI's annual conference in London, Mr Cameron will say that such reviews have become "a massive growth industry". The number has rocketed from 160 in 1975 to 11,200 last year, when an application was five times more likely to be refused than granted.

"We urgently needed to get a grip on this," he will say. "So here's what we're going to do. Reduce the time limit when people can bring cases. Charge more for reviews – so people think twice about time-wasting. And instead of giving hopeless cases up to four bites of the cherry to appeal a decision, we will halve that to two."

The Ministry of Justice will outline plans to cut the number of ill-founded reviews. Ministers insist the changes will not alter the role the reviews play in holding government to account.

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Monday 19 November 2012