Subjects:

Constitutional and Administrative Law

Contents:

1. Defining the Constitution

2. Parliamentary Sovereignty

3. The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers

4. The Royal Prerogative

5. The House of Commons

6. The House of Lords

7. The Electoral System

8. Parliamentary Privilege

9. Constitutional Conventions

10. Local Government - 1: Conventional Pluralism?

11. Local Government 2: Legal Authoritarianism?

12. The European Economic Community 1957-1986

13. The European Community After the Single European Act

14. Substantive Grounds of Judicial Review: Illegality, Irrationality and Proportionality

15. Procedural Grounds of Judicial Review

16. Order 53 and the Application for Judicial Review

17. Locus Standi

18. Human Rights and Civil Liberties I: Traditional Perspectives

19. Human Rights and Civil Liberties II: Emergent Principles

20. Human Rights and Civil Liberties III: New Substantive Grounds of Review

21. Human Rights and Civil Liberties IV: the Human Rights Act 1998

22. Scots and Welsh Devolution

23. Conclusion - Entrenchment of Fundamental Law Revisited

Bibliography

Index

The fourth edition of Constitutional and Administrative Law covers all of the core elements of both the Constitutional and Administrative Law syllabi, making it an ideal text for use on the LLB or CPE. It also includes substantial coverage of human rights issues.

Written in an accessible and engaging narrative style, the book drawns heavily from the political science, historical and comparative dimensions of the subject, thus locating it more firmly in its wider context than other available texts.

New to this edition:-

• Incorporates discussion of the key constitutional reform initiatives since 2000 and of important new judicial decisions
• Includes detailed analysis of recent major judicial decisions
• Includes a substantially amended and expanded analysis of the effet utile jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice
• Builds on expanded contents of the third edition, continuing to cover the traditional contents of LLB constitutional and administrative law courses, whilst also taking into account the Human Rights Act 1998 and all the changes that have taken place since 2000
• Includes a much expanded Online Resource Centre