Preface --
Table of Cases --
Table of Statutes --
PART 1 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES --
1 INTRODUCTION TO CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW --
What is a constitution --
The British constitution --
The cultural dimension --
The European dimension --
The terminology of constitutional and administrative law --
The geography of the constitution --
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF --
2 THE CONSTITUTION --
Introduction --
The unwritten --
constitution --
Flexibility --
Unitary --
Constitutional monarchy --
Bicameral sovereign Parliament --
Representative democracy --
Responsible government --
The separation of powers --
The rule of law --
3. SOURCES OF CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW --
Introduction --
Legislation --
Judicial decisions --
Constitutional conventions --
European Community law --
The European Convention on Human Rights --
The law and custom of Parliament --
PART 2 PARLIAMENT AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY --
THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: INSTITUTIONS AND SOURCES OF LAW --
Origins of the European Community --
The Maastricht Treaty and the European Union --
The Treaty of Amsterdam --
Subsidiarity --
Community institutions --
The Treaty of Nice --
Sources of Community law --
5 THE LEGISLATIVE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENT --
Introduction --
Application --
Possible legal limitations --
The relationship between EC law and Acts of Parliament --
PART 3. THE COMPOSITION AND WORKINGS OF PARLIAMENT --
6 THE FRANCHISE AND THE ELECTORATE --
Introduction --
Qualifications --
Disqualifications --
Special categories of voters--
Casting the vote --
7. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS: MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT --
Disqualifications --
Effects of disqualification --
Role and functions of MPs --
The relationship between MP and party --
8. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS: PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONS --
Introduction --
Legislation --
Scrutiny of executive action --
Financial proceedings --
Other functions M --
9. THE HOUSE OF LORDS --
Composition --
Types of peers --
Disclaimer and disqualification --
Attendance --
Powers --
Functions --
Proposals for reform --
10 PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE --
Nature and sources --
Freedom of speech --
Freedom from arrest --
Right of the House to regulate its own composition --
Right of the House to regulate its internal proceedings --
Right of the House to punish for breach of privilege and contempt of Parliament --
The courts and parliamentary privilege --
The courts and contempt --
PART 4 THE EXECUTIVE THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET --
11 Introduction --
Choosing a Prime Minister --
Factors contributing to the power of the Prime Minister --
The conventional power of dissolution --
Limits on prime ministerial power --
The Cabinet --
12. THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE --
Nature and significance --
History --
Principal remaining prerogatives --
The prerogative and statute --
The prerogative and the courts --
13.CROWN PROCEEDINGS AND THE LEGAL LIABILITY OF THE CROWN AND PUBLIC AUTHORITIES --
Introduction: the law before the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 --
The Crown Proceedings Act 1947 --
Private law liability for abuse of statutory powers --
Remedies --
Crown privilege --
From Crown privilege to public interest immunity --
Pleading public interest immunity: duty or discretion --
Public interest immunity and criminal proceedings --
PART 5 JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION --
14. THE NATURE OF JUDICIAL REVIEW --
Introduction --
The scope of judicial review --
Jurisdiction and power --
Review and appeal contrasted --
Sources of public law power --
15. GROUNDS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW: ILLEGALITY, IRRATIONALIT AND PROCEDURAL IMPROPRIETY --
Illegality: introduction --
Illegality and jurisdictional contro l--
Illegality and control of discretion --
Abuse of discretion T--
he concept of reasonableness --
From reasonableness to irrationality --
Proportionality --
Procedural impropriety: introduction --
Procedural ultra vires --
The rules of natural justice --
16 EXCLUSION OF AND APPLICATIONS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW --
Exclusion of judicial review: introduction --
Ouster clauses S --
ubjectively worded --
Alternative remedies powers--
Justiciability --
Applying for judicial review: introduction --
The procedure --
Remedies --
Relator proceedings --
17 EXCLUSIVITY --
Background --
The rule in O'Reilly v Mackman --
Abuse of power as a collateral issue --
Abuse of power as a defence --
Abuse of power where statutory remedy provided --
Judicial review and contractual powers --
Judicial review beyond statutory or prerogative powers --
PART 6 HUMAN RIGHTS --
18. THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS --
Introduction --
Formulation --
The Convention in English law prior to the Human Rights Act --
The European Court of Human Rights --
General principles of European human rights law --
The rights protected by the Convention --
19 THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACT 1998 --
Freedom versus rights --
Objectives of the 1998 Act --
Principal provisions --
Retrospective effect --
Human rights and judicial review --
Application of the Human Rights Act --
20 POLICE POWERS, PERSONAL LIBERTY AND PRIVACY --
Personal freedom: introduction --
The power to stop and search --
The power of arrest --
Detention --
Interviewing suspects --
Inadmissable evidence --
Entry, search and seizure --
Remedies for police malpractice --
Legal regulation of investigatory powers --
21. RESTRICTIONS ON THE RIGHTS OF FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY AND ASSOCIATION --
Introduction: the freedoms defined --
Common law preventative powers --
Statutory public order offences --
Other relevant statutory offences --
Common law offences --
22. RESTRICTIONS ON THE RIGHTS OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND INFORMATION --
Introduction --
Freedom of expression and the mass media --
Freedom of expression, obscenity and pornography --
Freedom of expression and the administration of justice --
Freedom of expression, public order and national security --
Freedom of information and data protection --
23 FREEDOM AND EMERGENCY POWERS --
Emergency powers in general --
Emergency powers in wartime --
Emergency powers and terrorism --
Emergency powers in peacetime --
Emergencies and the common law --
24.PART 7-TRIBUNALS, INQUIRIES AND COMPLAINTS PROCEDURES TRIBUNALS AND INQUIRIES --
Introduction --
Administrative tribunals --
Some particular tribunals --
Public inquiries The Franks Committee --
The Council on Tribunals --
The Leggat Review --
25 OMBUDSMEN --
Background --
The Parliamentary Commissioner --
The Health Service Commissioner --
The Commissions for Local Administration --
The Northern Ireland Ombudsman --
The Pensions Ombudsman --
The Legal Services Ombudsman --
The Prison Ombudsman --
Index.