Opinion ID: 2193387
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Review of writs

Text: We must review this matter under an appellate standard because it has come before us as a matter of right appeal and not an original action. Grange, 151 S.W.3d at 809. [T]he proper standard of review actually depends on the class, or category, of writ case. Id. at 810. [Writs] are truly extraordinary in nature and are reserved exclusively for those situations where litigants will be subjected to substantial injustice if they are required to proceed. Foresters, 175 S.W.3d at 615-6 (Ky.2005); Grange, 151 S.W.3d at 810. The bar is set high, requiring conditions precedent, before an appellate court can even reach the question of whether the lower court has committed error. Id. Where the lower court is acting within its jurisdiction, but in error, the court with which the petition for a writ is filed only reaches the decision as to issuance of the writ once it finds the existence of the `conditions precedent,' i.e., no adequate remedy on appeal, and great and irreparable harm. Grange, 151 S.W.3d at 810. `If [these] procedural prerequisites for a writ are satisfied, whether to grant or deny a petition for a writ is within the . . . court's discretion.' Id. (citations omitted).