This textbook provides a thorough and accessible introduction to the basic principles of United Kingdom Constitutional and Administrative Law, including Human Rights Law. It has been revised and updated to reflect recent developments, both legal and political. The fundamental concepts of UK Constitutional and Administrative Law are explained in a clear, engaging, succinct style, making them straightforward for students to understand so they build up their knowledge of the subject systematically and thoroughly. This book is also an essential starting point for more advanced law students and a valuable source of legal context for political science students alike. Both authoritative and accessible, it enables the reader to appreciate the nature and complexity of this most fundamental part of our legal system.
On 23 December 1998 both Mr Peter Mandelson, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, and Mr Geoffrey Robinson, the Paymaster-General, both resigned. The ostensible reason was a possible allegation of 'sleaze' in that Mr Robinson had ...
The New Constitutional and Administrative Law: Constitutional law
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The book has been consciously designed to meet the needs of students undertaking a constitutional and administrative law course, whether full or part time, and provides comprehensive coverage of the syllabus drawn from a wide range of ...
Constitutional and Administrative Law: Basic Principles
A thorough and accessible introduction to the basic legal principles of the UK constitution. This ninth edition has been fully updated to reflect latest developments.
Having undergone a rigorous editing process to offer a more concise account of public law today, contemporary developments covered in this edition include the UK's first coalition government for nearly 60 years, and recent proposals to ...
Yet the Illinois Supreme Court, its unanimous opinion delivered by Thompson CJ, held that the city could do nothing at all to suppress the dissemination of such stories. The judgment was formally rooted in Art 2, s 4 of the Illinois ...
The same point was put more succinctly by Mr Sullivan QC, who appeared for the council—'The club failed to align themselves whole-heartedly with the council on a controversial issue.
Constitutional and Administrative Law