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Justice C.K. Takwani's Lectures on Administrative Law explainsthe fundamental principles of Administrative Law lucidly and logically.The book discusses all the essential aspects in Administrative Law,such as, its relationship with constitutional law, principles ofdelegated legislation, natural justice, and judicial review and theirapplication to the administrative machinery of India.
In the lastten years, the scope of Administrative Law has grown considerably.Justice C.K, Takwani (Thakker), a distinguished Judge of the SupremeCourt of India, and an eminent scholar, has thoroughly revised andupdated the fourth edition with all the new case law and added newdiscussion in several areas, such as, the competing Red Light and GreenLight theories, the topics of delegated legislation, natural justiceand judicial review, referring to over 1000 cases.
This masterpieceis most sought after by law students and junior members of Bar; though,the book is equally valuable for practising lawyers and judges. Variousuniversities have also prescribed the book as essential reading at theLL.B. and LL.M. level.
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Contents
I -  Introduction
1.    General
2.    Definition of Administrative Law
3.    Nature and Scope of Administrative Law
4.    Reasons for Growth of Administrative Law
5.    Functions of Administrative Law
6.    Red Light Theory and Green Light Theory
7.    Sources of Administrative Law
8.    Historical Growth and Development of Administrative Law
9.    Constitutional Law and Administrative Law
10.  English Administrative Law and Indian Administrative Law
II - Basic Constitutional Principles
1.    Rule of Law
2.    Separation of Powers
III - Classification of Administrative Actions
1.    General
2.    Need for classification
3.    Legislative, Executive and Judicial Functions: General Distinction
4.    Legislative Functions
5.    Legislative and Judicial Functions: Distinction
6.    Legislative and Administrative Functions: Distinction
7.    Judicial Functions
8.    Quasi-Judicial Functions
9.    Judicial and Quasi-Judicial Functions: Distinction
10.  Administrative Functions
11.  Administrative and Quasi Judicial Functions: Distinction
12.  Administrative Instructions
IV -  Delegated Legislation (General Principles)
1.    General
2.    Definition
3.    Subordinate Legislation and Supreme Legislation: Distinction
4.    Delegated Legislation: Whether Necessary Evil?
5.    Historical Growth
6.    Reasons for Growth of Delegated Legislation
7.    Forms of delegated Legislation
8.    Delegated Legislation in England
9.    Delegated Legislation in U. S. A.
10.  Delegated Legislation in India
11.  Excessive delegation
12.  Functions which can be Delegated (Permissible delegation)
13.  Functions which cannot be Delegated (Impermissible delegation)
14.  Delegation in favour of Local Authorities
15.  Taxing statutes
16.  Valid Delegated Legislation: Effect
17.  Conditional Legislation
18.  Sub-delegation
19.  Controls and safeguards
20.  General Principles
V - Delegated Legislation (Controls and Safeguards)
1.    Introduction
2.    Judicial control
3.    Legislative Control
4.    Other controls
5.    Concluding remarks
VI -  Natural Justice
1.    General
2.    Definition
3.    Nature and Scope
4.    Object
5.    Historical growth
6.    Natural justice and statutory provisions
7.    Against whom natural justice may be enforced
8.    Principles of natural justice
9.    Absence of bias, interest or prejudice
10.  “Hear the other side” (Audi Alteram partem)
11.  Speaking orders or reasoned decisions
12.  Pre-decisional and Post-decisional hearing
13.  Exclusion of natural justice
14.  Effect of breach of natural justice: Void or voidable
15.  Where natural justice violated: Illustrative Cases
16.  Where natural justice not violated: Illustrative Cases
VII - Administrative Tribunals
1.    General
2.    Definition
3.    Status
4.    Historical growth
5.    Reasons for growth of administrative tribunals
6.    Administrative tribunal and court: Distinction
7.    Administrative tribunal and executive authority: Distinction
8.    Characteristics
9.    Working of tribunals
10.  Domestic tribunals
11.  Power to grant interim relief
12.  Administrative tribunals and principles of natural justice
13.  Administrative tribunals and rules of procedure and evidence
14.  Reasons for decisions     
15.  Finality of decisions
16.  Decisions of tribunals and judicial review
17.  Power of review
18.  Doctrine of res judicata
19.  Administrative tribunals: Whether bound by decisions of
       Supreme Court and High Courts
20.  Doctrine of precedent
21.  Doctrine of stare decisis 
22.  Contempt of administrative tribunals
23.  Limitations
24.  Frank's Committee
25.  Constitution (Forty-second Amendment) Act
26.  Constitution (Forty-fourth Amendment) Act
27.  Sampath Kumar v. Union of India
28.  Post Sampath Kumar position
29.  Chandra Kumar v. Union of India
30.  Concluding remarks
VIII - Judicial Review of Administrative Discretion
1.    General
2.    Administrative discretion: Meaning
3.    Judicial review: Meaning
4.    Judicial review: Object
5.    Doctrine explained
6.    Judicial review: Nature and scope
7.    Judicial  review and  administrative review: Distinction
8.    English law
9.    American law
10.  Indian law
11.  Judicial review and justiciability
12.  Judicial review: Limitations
13.  Overriding considerations
14.  Discretionary power and judicial review
15.  Grounds
16.  Failure to exercise discretion
17.  Excess or abuse of discretion
18.  Doctrine of proportionality
19.  Doctrine of legitimate expectations
20.  Concluding remarks
IX - Judicial and other Remedies
1.    Introduction
2.    Prerogative remedies
       Habeas Corpus
       Mandamus
       Prohibition
       Certiorari
       Quo Warranto
3.    Constitutional remedies
4.    Statutory remedies
5.    Equitable remedies
6.    Common law remedies
7.    Parliamentary remedies
8.    Conseil d’Etat
9.    Ombudsman
10.  Coercive action
11.  Concluding remarks
X - Liability of the Government
1.    Introduction
2.    Contractual liability
3.    Tortious liability
4.    Is State bound by statute?
5.    Doctrine of public accountability
6.    Doctrine of estoppel
7.    Crown privilege
8.    Miscellaneous privileges of Government
XI - Public Corporations
1.    Introduction
2.    Definition
3.    Object
4.    Characteristics
5.    English law and Indian law
6.    Classification
7.    Working of Public Corporations
8.    Public Corporation: Whether ‘state’ under Article 12 of the Constitution?
9.    Government Department
10.  Government Company
11.  Rights and duties of Public Corporations
12.  Liabilities of Public Corporations
13.  Servants of Public Corporations
14.  Controls over Public Corporations
15.  Concluding remarks
Selected Bibliography
Subject Index
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