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:Parliamentary supremacy and human rights
10:Devolution and parliamentary supremacy
Part III: Responsible Government
11:Executive power and accountability
12:The role of constitutional conventions
13:Justice in the modern administrative state
Part IV: Judicial Review
14:The role of the courts, judicial review, and human rights
15:The parties to a judicial review: who can make a claim for judicial review and against whom can a claim of judicial review be made?
16:Illegality
17:Irrationality and proportionality
18:Procedural impropriety
19:Remedies
20:Judicial review: putting it all together in problem answers
Complete Public Law is supported by clear author commentary, choice extracts, and useful learning features. The explanations and examples in this textbook have been crafted to help students hone their understanding of public law.
The Complete titles are ambitious in their scope; they have been carefully developed with teachers to offer law students more than just a presentation of the key concepts. Instead they offer a complete package. Only by building on the foundations of the subject, by showing how the law works, demonstrating its application through extracts from cases and judgments, and by giving students the tools and the confidence to think critically about the law will they gain a complete understanding.
