Roger Masterman, Colin Murray

Constitutional and Administrative Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The central purpose of a constitution is to allocate and regulate governmental power within a state. A constitution establishes the key institutions of government; it grants power to them, distributes power between them, and governs the ways in which the institutions of government interact with each other. A constitution also controls the way in which those institutions might exercise their powers, and determines how those powers might be exercised in relation to the individuals who reside within that state. Constitutions are therefore, as the quote which opens this chapter suggests, a distinctive species of legal norms (rules) concerned with the government and governance of the state within which they apply"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 888
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 173mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1792g
• ISBN-13: 9781009158480
• ISBN-10: 1009158481
• Artikelnr.: 62951369

Autorenporträt

Roger Masterman is Professor of Constitutional Law at Durham Law School, where he teaches UK Constitutional Law and Comparative Constitutional Law. He is Joint General Editor of the journal Public Law, and a member of the executive committee of the UK Constitutional Law Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the third edition
Acknowledgements
Table of cases
Table of statutes
Part I. Constitutional Regulation in the Absence of a Codified Constitution
1. The purposes and characteristics of constitutions
2. The domestic sources of the UK Constitution
3. The UK Constitution and international legal orders
4. Brexit and the UK Constitution
5. Law, politics and the nature of the United Kingdom Constitution
Part II. The Theory and Practice of the United Kingdom Constitution
6. Parliamentary sovereignty
7. The rule of law
8. Separation of powers
9. Principles of political and parliamentary accountability
Part III. Central Government in the United Kingdom
10. The executive
11. Parliament (I): the House of Commons
12. Parliament (II): the House of Lords
13. The United Kingdom Supreme Court and the office of Lord Chancellor: towards an independent judicial branch?
Part IV. Decentralised Government in the United Kingdom
14. The United Kingdom's devolution arrangements
15. Devolution and the UK Constitution
Part V. Accountability (I): Scrutiny, Openness and Good Administration
16. Parliamentary scrutiny of government
17. The Parliamentary Ombudsman
18. Freedom of information
Part VI. Accountability (II): The Courts
19. Judicial review of administrative action - theory, procedure and remedies
20. Judicial review of administrative action - grounds for review
21. The European Convention on human rights
22. The Human Rights Act 1998
23. Political freedoms and democratic participation
Index.