Cases & Materials on Constitutional & Administrative Law

Cases & Materials on Constitutional and Administrative Law provides you with a comprehensive selection of legal resources to accompany your studies. Extracts from leading cases, academic works, and political documents are drawn together with incisive author commentary and thought-provoking questions to highlight the historical debates and ongoing development of the subject. The authors take a critical look at the doctrines of constitutional law and the principles of administrative law, showing how the constitution operates in relation to Parliament, the Executive, and the citizen. The eleventh edition has been fully revised and updated with new extracts and commentary from recent case law and legislation, and also features a new chapter on devolution.

1 - Constitutional law in the United Kingdom
2 - The legislative sovereignty of parliament
3 - The rule of law
4 - Judicial independence
5 - The royal prerogative and constitutional conventions
6 - Parliament: scrutiny of policy and administration
7 - Parliament: law-making
8 - Devolution
9 - Human rights
10 - Judicial review: the grounds
11 - The availability of judicial review
12 - Ombudsmen
13 - Statutory tribunals

Brian Thompson is a Senior Lecturer at the Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool, and is a member of the Tribunal Procedure Committee. Michael Gordon is Lecturer in Law at Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool.