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42. Schwartz and H.W.R. Wade wrote in legal control of Government :

Restrictive rules about standing are in general inimical to a healthy system of administrative law. If a plaintiff with a good case is turned away, merely because he is not sufficiently affected personally, that means that some Government agency is left free to violate the law, and that is contrary to the public interest. Litigants are unlikely to expend their time and money unless they have some real interest at stake. In the rare cases where they wish to sue merely out of public spirit, why should they be discouraged? (Professors Bernard Schwartz and H.W.R. Wade, O.C., in Legal Control of Government (1972), p. 291).