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Dateline: 6th October, 2005
Leading Black theatre company Talawa has asked for a judicial review of Arts Copuncil England's decision to withdraw support from the company's £9.2m project to redevelop the old Westminster Theatre site to create the UK’s first Black-led permanent purpose built theatre in London and to cease funding the company's projects and productions for eighteen months. A judicial review, which is carried out by the High Court, is a means of ensuring that decisions made by public bodies are made lawfully and fairly, taking relevant considerations into account. According to the Department for Constitutional Affairs protocol, a judical review "allows people with a sufficient interest in a decision or action by a public body to ask a judge to review the lawfulness of an enactment or a decision, action or failure to act in relation to the exercise of a public function. Judicial review may be used where there is no right of appeal or where all avenues of appeal have been exhausted." “It is somewhat ironic," a statement from the Talawa Bpard says, "that in the very month London celebrates Black history, the future of one of the UK’s leading Black-led arts organizations hangs in the balance. London is ready for a Black-run, Black-led theatre. The UK is ready. Talawa shares this vision. The Talawa board is united in fighting for the rights of artists and theatre goers to have a long awaited home for the unique and valid artistic expression of Black theatre in the UK. We are fully committed to a long term vision for Talawa and a home for Black theatre in the UK and that has not changed.” For the background, see our earlier news story. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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