Advanced Administrative Law

Advanced Administrative Law will address particularly challenging, often very current, problems in the law relating to executive decision-makers and other public authorities (other than Parliament), and to institutions and processes for empowering them, regulating and investigating their conduct, and providing redress. The course is divided into four ‘blocks,’ each containing three or four seminars connected with a broader theme.  

1. Bringing claims against public authorities I: covering different aspects of the application for judicial review procedure as it operates in the legal system of England and Wales
2. Judicial review and the constitution: considering a series of legal areas in which, in engaging in judicial review, courts interact with features of the UK’s constitutional set up including prerogative power, common law rights and the principle of ‘dualism’
3. Bringing claims against public authorities II: looking at routes for raising complaints about or seeking redress from public authorities beyond judicial review
4. Taking public administration seriously: exploring the importance and variety of public administration, and its modes of operation, and its relationship with judicial review 

The course is on the administrative law of England and Wales. 

Assessment is by way of an examination.