Complete Public Law Text, Cases, and Materials

Complete Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials combines extracts from key primary and secondary materials with clear explanatory text to provide a complete resource for students of constitutional and administrative law.

The book has been carefully structured with the needs of undergraduate students in mind. Opening with a consideration of basic constitutional principles (in which no previous knowledge is assumed), the authors move on to cover parliamentary supremacy and the concept of responsible government, before closing with extensive consideration of the principles and procedures of judicial review.

A wealth of learning features such as thinking points, diagrams, useful notes, summary points and reflective questions provide valuable support for students.

Online Resource Centre

This book is accompanied by a comprehensive Online Resource Centre which contains the following resources:

For students:
- Updates
- Web links
- A flashcard glossary of key terms
- A timeline of key events

For lecturers:
- A fully customizable test bank of multiple choice questions with answer feedback

Lisa Webley, Professor of Empirical Legal Studies, University of Westminster,Harriet Samuels, Reader in Law, University of Westminster

Part I: Introduction and Constitutional Principles
1. What is public law?
2. Constitutional organisations, institutions, and roles
3. The nature of the British constitution
4. The rule of law
5. The separation of powers
6. The Crown and royal prerogative
Part II: Parliamentary Supremacy
7. Parliamentary supremacy: the theory
8. Membership of the European Union
9. Human rights
10. Devolution
Part III: Responsible Government
11. Executive power and accounting
12. The role of constitutional conventions
13. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
Part IV: Judicial Review
14. The role of the courts, judicial review, and human rights
15. The parties to a judicial review
16. Illegality
17. Irrationality and proportionality
18. Procedural impropriety
19. Remedies
20. A case study: human rights, terrorism, and public law principles
21. Judicial review: putting it all together in problem answers