Table of Contents

1: Constitutional and administrative law: nature, sources and history
2: Constitutional Law and constitutional principles
3: The royal prerogative
4: The Cabinet: ministers and their responsibilities
5: Parliament: composition and privileges
6: Parliament: procedures and functions
7: The United Kingdom and the European Community and Union
8: The Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
9: The availability of judicial review
10: Grounds for judicial review
11: Public order
12: Police powers
13: European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the Human Rights Act 1998

About the Author

David Pollard is Officier des Palmes Académiques and has taught constitutional law in a number of countries.; Neil Parpworth is a Principal Lecturer in Law at De Montfort University. Previously, he worked for the Parliamentary Counsel at the Law Commission.

; David Hughes is a Professor of Law at De Montfort University. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester and has also taught at the Universities of Birmingham and York.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition 'An excellent book encapsulating present legal principles within their historical contexts''
Oxbridge Legal Review
`'Highly recommended to students and others seeking a clear and comprehensive text''
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