… captures the current common law test as to when it is
appropriate and inappropriate to name a decision-maker as a respondent to an appeal against its
decision, noting the phrase helps distinguish those bodies that act exclusively as adjudicators of …
… discretion, the courts generally do not decide appeals where the
decision will have no practical effect on the rights of the parties before the court in
relation to what was in issue between them in lower courts.28 This policy of restraint
reflec…