Complete Public Law - Text, Cases, and Materials

Complete Public Law offers students a carefully blended combination of the subject's concepts, cases, and commentary. A combination which encourages critical thinking, stimulates analysis, and promotes a complete understanding.

List of contents

• Part I: Introduction and Constitutional Principles


• 1: What is public law?


• 2: Constitutional organisations, institutions, and roles


• 3: The nature of the British constitution


• 4: The rule of law


• 5: The separation of powers


• 6: The Crown and royal prerogative


• Part II: Parliamentary Supremacy


• 7: Parliamentary supremacy: the theory


• 8: Membership of the European Union


• 9: Parliamentary supremacy and human rights


• 10: Devolution and parliamentary supremacy


• Part III: Responsible Government


• 11: Executive power and accountability


• 12: The role of constitutional conventions


• 13: Justice in the modern administrative state


• Part IV: Judicial Review


• 14: The role of the courts, judicial review, and human rights


• 15: The parties to a judicial review: who can make a claim for judicial review and against whom can a claim of judicial review be made?


• 16: Illegality


• 17: Irrationality and proportionality


• 18: Procedural impropriety


• 19: Remedies


• 20: Judicial review: putting it all together in problem answers

About the author

Lisa Webley, Professor of Legal Education and Research, University of Birmingham, Harriet Samuels, Reader in Law, University of Westminster

Summary

Complete Public Law offers students a carefully blended combination of the subject's concepts, cases, and commentary. A combination which encourages critical thinking, stimulates analysis, and promotes a complete understanding.

Product details

• Authors: Harriet Samuels, Samuels Harriet, Lisa Webley, Lisa (Professor of Legal Education and Res Webley, Webley Lisa
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.08.2021
• EAN: 9780198853183
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885318-3
• No. of pages: 752
• Series: Complete
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; England, Wales, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Constitutional, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Wales / Cymru