TY - BOOK AU - Herling, David TI - Briefcase on constitutional and administrative law SN - 1859412475 AV - KD35.G7.1 H47B 1995 PY - 1995/// CY - London : PB - Cavendish Publishing, KW - Great Britain -- Constitutional law KW - Administrative law KW - Constitutional law -- Great Britain KW - Administrative law -- Great Britain N1 - Preface -- Table of cases -- Part 1 Constitutional law -- 1 Conventions distinguished from laws -- 1.1 The nature of constitutional conventions -- 1.2 The distinction between laws and conventions -- 1.3 The courts will admit evidence of conventions to T establish a cause of action -- 1.4 Conventions cannot crystallise into law -- 2 The rule of law -- 2.1 Government according to the law -- 2.2 Equality before the law -- 2.3 Rights are declared by the common law -- 3 Parliament and the courts -- 3.1 The relationship of Parliament and the courts -- 3.2 Privileges of Parliament -- 3.3 Maintaining the constitutional balance between legislature and judicature -- 4 The legislative sovereignty of Parliament -- 4.1 Statute overrides international law -- 4.2 Statute overrides political fact -- 4.3 The courts and the legislative sovereignty of Parliament -- 4.4 Challenge in the courts to derivative legislation -- 4.5 The consequences of membership of the EuropeanT Union for the legislative sovereignty of Parliament -- 5 The prerogative powers of the Crown -- 5.1 Definitions -- 5.2 Prerogative powers conflicting with law -- 5.3 Prerogative powers unauthorised by law -- 5.4 Legal challenge to the exercise of prerogative powers -- 5.5 The relationship between prerogative and statute -- 5.6 Particular prerogative powers -- 5.7 Acts of State -- 6 The Crown and its subjects -- 6.1 Reciprocal duties -- 6.2 The duties of the Crown are not enforceable -- 7 The administration of justice -- 7.1 The characteristics of a court -- 7.2 Judicial immunity for acts done within jurisdiction -- 7.3 Contempt of court -- 7.4 The Attorney General and the enforcement of the law -- 8 The police -- 8.1 The police are servants of the Crown, not of wed local government -- 8.2 The courts and the duty of the police to enforce the law -- 8.3 The police have no general duty to individual members of the public -- Part 2 Administrative law -- 9 Judicial review under Order -- 9.1 The availability of judicial review -- 9.2 Remedies available under Order 53 -- 9.3 Public and private law -- 9.4 Ouster clauses -- 10 Who is subject to judicial review? -- 10.1 The jurisdiction as formerly defined -- 10.2 Recent expansion of the jurisdiction -- 11 The requirement of locus standi -- 1.1 The tests applied at the leave and at the substantive -- stages are not the same -- 11.2 The test for locus standi may vary according to the remedy sought -- 11.3 Recent decisions on locus standi -- 12 The grounds for judicial review: illegality -- 12.1 General definition of illegality -- 12.2 The ultra vires doctrine-- 12.3 The effect of a decision-maker's error of law -- 12.4 Delegation of powers -- 12.5 The exercise of discretion -- 12.6 Relevant and irrelevant considerations -- 12.7 The exercise of discretion for an improper purpose -- 13 The grounds for judicial review: irrationality -- 13.1 General definitions of irrationality -- 13.2 Applications of the principle -- 13.3 The test as applied to decisions approved he by Commons -- 14 The grounds for judicial review: procedural impropriety -- 14.1 General definition of the principle -- 14.2 Express procedural requirements -- 14.3 Natural justice e law -- 14.4 Nemo iudex in causa sua: the role against bias bers -- 15 The doctrine of legitimate expectations -- 15.1 The emergence of the doctrine in English administrative law -- 15.2 Legitimate expectation as a means of establishing locus standi -- 15.3 Legitimate expectation as a means of securing procedural rights -- 15.4 Legitimate expectation as a means of securing substantive rights -- 15.5 Considerations overriding legitimate expectations -- 16 The duty to give reasons -- 16.1 The consequences of failure to give reasons -- 16.2 Circumstances in which the common law imposes a duty to give reasons -- 16.3 Rationales for the imposition of a duty to give reasons -- 17 Proportionality -- 17.1 Explicit discussion of disproportionality as a ground of review -- 17.2 Implicit use of proportionality in judicial reasoning -- Part 3 Civil liberties and the common law -- 18 The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- 18.1 The Convention and the UK courts -- 18.2 Common law procedures for the vindication of fundamental rights -- 18.3 The attitude of the European Court of Justice -- 19 Public assembly -- 19.1 Restriction for the avoidance of public disorder -- 20 Public order -- 21 Protection of privacy -- 21.1 Breach of confidence -- 22 Freedom of expression -- 22.1 Compatibility of English law and the Convention -- 23 Freedom of religion -- 23.1 The definition of 'religion' -- 23.2 The extent of the association between Christianity and the law -- 23.3 The law of blasphemy -- 23.4 Religious discrimination and testamentary freedom -- 24 Freedom of movement -- 24.1 Freedom to travel abroad -- 24.2 Exclusion orders: legal challenge -- 24.3 Deportation -- 25 Prisoners' rights -- 25.1 Judicial review is available to vindicate the residual rights of prisoners -- 25.2 Prisoners' rights of access to the courts -- 26 The courts and police powers -- 26.1 Police duties and the nature of the citizen's duty to assist the police -- 26.2 The requirement of legal justification for police action -- 26.3 The exercise of specific powers -- Index ER -