The law of legitimate expectations is most developed where the courts are making a connection between a legitimate expectation and the procedure followed. A legitimate expectation may entitle people to a level of procedural protection (such as an oral hearing) which, in the absence of the expectation, they would not have received.1R v Liverpool Corp Ex p Liverpool Taxi Fleet Operators' Association [1972] 2 QB 299. (1972).2Attorney General of Hong Kong v Yuen [1983] 2 AC 629. (1983).3Woolf, H., Jowell, J., Donnelly, C., & Hare, I. (2020).