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.............................................................................................................................Description Leyland and Woods have completely revised and updated this new edition of Textbook on Administrative Law to provide a concise and practical overview of this challenging, wide-ranging area of law. The book remains as accessible as ever, fully explaining the core areas of the subject and setting them within a contextual and thematic framework. Accountability and citizen grievance claims are the guiding themes of the book, and clarify this complex subject for LIB and CPE students; it is also accessible to non-law undergraduate and postgraduate students with an interest in the field. New to this edition: • Full coverage of recent case law • New chapter on EU law • New chapter providing full discussion of the Human Rights • Act 1998 and its impact • Fully revised chapters and useful glossary on Judicial Review • Suggestions for further reading, and bibliography .............................................................................................................................Contents 1. Introduction, theory and history 2. Constitutional concepts and executive power 3. The modern administrative state 4. The European Union 5. The general issue of accountability: the role of Parliament and MPs 6. 'The Ombudsman principle' 7. Tribunals and inquiries Judicial review: introductory glossary of terms 8. Introduction to judicial review 9. Illegality I 10. Illegality II 11. Wednesbury unreasonableness/irrationality, proportionality 12. Procedural impropriety I 13. Procedural impropriety II: the rules of natural justice/fairness 14. Procedural impropriety III: the requirements of natural justice/fairness 15. Administrative law and the Human Rights Act 1998 16. Express and implied limits on judicial review: ouster and time limit clauses, the prerogative power, public interest immunity 17. Filter mechanisms: rationing the remedies available 18. The remedies 19. Contractual liability of public bodies 20. Public liability in tort 21. Administrative law facing the future.............................................................................................................................Author Details Peter Leyland is Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University, and has published widely in the field of public and comparative law. Terry Woods is a Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University, specialising in public law and legal and political theory..............................................................................................................................
