What is Administrative Law?
1.Evolution, Nature and Scope of Administrative Law
1.1. From a Laissez Faire to a Social Welfare State; State as regulator of private interest; State as provider of services; Other functions of Modern State; Relief; Welfare
1.2. Evolution of Administration as the fourth branch of government; Necessity for delegation of powers on administration
1.3. Evolution of agencies and procedures for settlement of disputes between individual and administration
1.3.1. Regulatory Agencies in the United States
1.3.2. Conseil d’ Etate of France
1.3.3. Tribunalization in England and India
1.4. Relationship between Constitutional Law and Administrative Law and Public Administration
1.5. Separation of Powers: To what extent relevant to administrative functions?
1.6. Rule of Law and Administrative Law
1.7. Definitions of Administrative Law
1.8. Scope of Administrative Law
1.9. Emerging trends: Positive duties of administration under the modern social welfare legislation and compulsions of planning
2. Bureaucracy in India
2.1. Nature and Organization of civil service; Central and State
2.2. It’s hierarchical character; Accountability and Responsiveness
2.3. Powers and Functions
2.4. Attainment of developmental and social welfare goals through bureaucracy; Problems and perspectives
2.5. Class character and Structure
2.6. Administrative deviance; Corruption; Nepotism; Mal-administration; Disciplinary proceedings and Prosecutions under Prevention of Corruption Act.
3. Legislative powers of administration
3.1. Necessity for delegation of legislative power
3.2. Constitutionality of delegated legislation; Powers of exclusion and inclusion an power to modify statute.
3.3. Requirements for the validity of delegated legislation
3.3.1. Consultation of affected interests and public participation in decision making
3.3.2. Publication of delegated legislation
3.4. Administrative directions; circular and policy statements
3.5. Legislative Control of delegated legislation
3.5.1. Laying procedures and their efficacy
3.5.2. Committees on delegated legislation-their constitution-function and effectiveness
3.5.3. Hearings before Legislative Committees
3.6. Judicial Control of delegated legislation-Doctrine of Ultra Vires
3.7. Sub-Delegation of legislative powers
4. Judicial powers of administration
4.1. Need for devolution of adjudicatory authority on administration
4.2. Administrative Tribunals and other adjudicating authorities their ad hoc character- Compare administration of justice in court with that of Tribunals (Ref.Robson)
4.3. Nature of Tribunals; Constitution; Procedure; Rules of evidence, etc., with special reference to the following:
4.3.1. Central Board of Customs and Excise
4.3.2. MRTP Commission
4.3.3. ESI courts
4.3.4. Service Tribunals
4.4. Jurisdiction of Administrative Tribunals and Other authorities; Distinction betweenquasi-judicial and administrative functions and relevance of this distinction in the light of recent decisions of the Supreme Court
4.5. The Right to Hearing; Essentials of hearing process, Bias (no one can be a judge in his own cause); Oral Hearing, etc.,
4.6. Rules of Evidence- No evidence; Some evidence and Substantial evidence rules
4.7. Requirements regarding Reasoned Decisions.
4.8. The Right to Counsel
4.9. Institutional Decisions
4.10. Administrative Appeals
4.11. Council on Tribunals and Inquiries in England
4.12. US Regulatory Agencies and Administrative Procedures Act, 1946
4.13. Emerging trends of Tribunalization in India as a means to relieve congestion in the courts and utilization of administrative expertise. Learn more details about IPC Indian penal code here.
5. Judicial Control of Administrative Action
5.1. Preliminary
5.1.1. Courts as the final authority of determine legality of administrative action; Problems and Perspectives
5.1.2. Exhaustion of Administrative Remedy
5.1.3. Standing; Standing for Social Action Litigation
5.1.4. Laches
5.1.5. Res Judicata
5.2. Grounds of Judicial Review: Scope of judicial review
5.2.1. Jurisdictional error/ultra vires
5.2.2. Abuse and non exercise of jurisdiction
5.2.3. Error apparent on the face of the record
5.2.4. Violation of Principles of Natural Justice
5.2.5. Primary jurisdiction
5.2.6. Absence of ripeness
5.2.7. Political Question
5.2.8. Doctrine of Legitimate Expectation
5.3. Methods of Judicial Review
5.3.1. Statutory Appeals
5.3.2. Mandamus
5.3.3. Certiorari
5.3.4. Prohibition
5.3.5. Quo-warranto
5.3.6. Habeas corpus
5.3.7. Declaratory Judgment and Injunctions
5.3.8. Specific Performance and civil suits for compensation
5.3.9. Fact-finding Commissions
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6. Administrative Discretion
6.1. Need for administrative discretion
6.2. Administrative discretion and Rule of Law
6.3. Malafide exercise of discretion
6.4. Constitutional imperatives and use of discretionary authority
6.5. Irrelevant Considerations
6.6. Non-exercise of discretionary power
6.7. Discretion to prosecute or to withdraw prosecution
6.8. Limiting, confining and restructuring discretion-general discretion, technical discretion in environmental law of India.
7. Liability for wrongs: (Tortuous and Contractual)
7.1. Tortuous Liability: Sovereign and Non-sovereign functions
7.2. Crown Proceedings Act of UK and Torts Claims Act of US
7.3. Statutory Immunity
7.4. Act of State
7.5. Contractual liability of Government
7.6. Government privilege in legal proceedings; State secrets, Public interest, etc.,
7.7. Right to Information and Open government
7.8. Estoppel and Waiver
8. Corporations and Public undertakings
8.1. State Monopoly; Remedies against arbitrary action or for action against public policy
8.2. Liability of public and private corporations of departmental undertakings
8.3. Legal Remedies
8.4. Accountability; Committee on public undertakings, Estimates committee, etc.
9. Informal methods of settlement of disputes and grievance redressal procedure
9.1. Conciliation and mediation through Social Action Groups
9.2. Use of media, lobbying and public participation in policy making
9.3. Public inquiries and Commissions of inquiry
9.4. Ombudsman, Parliamentary Commissioner
9.5. Lok pal, lokayukta
9.6. Vigilance Commission, Congressional and Parliamentary Committees