Index
A v United Kingdom 271, 272, 274—276 administrative law values 260
Administrative Procedure Act 1946 (US) 145 administrative tribunals 6, 8, 17, 18, 30, 36, 37-38, 44, 45, 236-246, 258, 406 administrative appeal tribunals and Upper Tribunal 37-38, 97, 237-238, 240-245 Airey v Ireland 396
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants v Osborne 295, 304
American Bar Association 64
Amphitrite case (Rederiaktiebolaget Amphitrite v The King) 52-53
Animal Defenders International v Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport 157
Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission 97, 150, 244
Anti-terrorism Crime and Security Act 2001 (UK) 279,283
Anufrijeva v Southwark 397
Association of District Judges 214 accountability accountability institution 132, 233, 234, 235, 236, 246, 250, 251 accountability to the law 68-71 administrative accountability 263, 350 civil administrative accountability 31, 35, 56 constitutional accountability 9, 12, 16, 265, 310, 311
democratic accountability 128, 151, 205, 259, 286, 312
dichotomy between legal and political accountability 8, 27, 32
financial accountability 325 government accountability 234, 278 ministerial accountability 4, 203, 234, 262, 270
public accountability 4, 263, 289, 345 see also judicial accountability; legal accountability; parliamentary accountability; political accountability
Bagehot, Walter 31 Barendt, Eric 274
Barnett Formula 21, 310, 313, 317-318, 320-323, 325, 328-329
Beatson, J 253
Belfast Agreement 1998 306
Belfast City Council v Miss Behavin Ltd 166, 168
Bellamy, Richard 86-87
Belmarsh case (A (FC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department) 279-283,287
Better Regulation Commission 371
Less is More Report 371
Public Risk — the Next Frontier for Better Regulation Report 371
Better Regulation Executive 370
Better Regulation Strategy Group 370
Better Regulation Taskforce 359, 371, 373
Bill of Rights 11, 82, 86, 105, 107, 112, 119, 152, 196, 211, 271, 278, 292, 406, 407
Bingham, Lord Justice 82, 169, 172, 274, 275, 280, 281, 283, 284, 287
Blom-Cooper, Louis 254
Bogdanor, V 317, 328
Bovens, Mark 1, 7, 13, 126-127, 155
Bradlaugh v Gossett 275-276
Bribery Act 2010 (UK) 294
British Railways Board v Pickin 275
Bromley London Borough Council v Greater London Council 296, 301, 304
Brown v Board of Education 147
Buchanan v Jennings 274, 275
Bush v Gore 71
Calman Commission 310, 320, 322
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 110, 112, 265
Carltona case (Carltona Ltd v Commissioner of Works) 49, 50
Chandler v DPP 302
Chilcot Inquiry 256
Civil Service Code 270, 293, 294, 299
Clinical Commissioning Groups 22, 341-343, 352 Compensation Act2006 (UK) 213 compensation culture 213
constitutional convention 8, 16, 19, 34, 64, 208, 215, 268-269, 313, 358
ministerial responsibility 15, 16, 19, 21, 202-203, 222, 259, 266, 268-270, 287, 303, 311, 366
Constitutional Court, South Africa 11, 121 constitutional dialogue 112, 266 Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (UK) 15, 203, 215, 237
Constitutional Reform and Governance Act2010 (UK) 215, 277, 294, 305
Constitutional Affairs Committee, House of Commons 216, 218
Constitution Committee, House of Lords 149, 206, 208, 214, 217, 218, 219, 221, 222
Consumer Council for Water 360, 361, 385 Conway v Rimmer 51
Counter-Terrorism Policy and Human Rights:
Bringing Human Rights Back In 286 courts
apex courts 9, 58, 59, 61—62, 63, 68, 69, 70, 73, 133
constitutional courts 59, 72, 73, 108, 406 court boards 205
role of courts 78-79, 112, 118, 121, 135 separation of powers 5, 16-17, 44, 82-83, 89, 97, 103, 128, 202, 214-215, 235, 237, 252, 256, 270, 275
see also administrative tribunal
Craig, Paul 89, 172
culture of justification 155-156, 160-171, 176-179
D'Hondt Formula 312
Daintith, Terence 267
Davies, Anne 2, 5-6, 21-22, 267
De Smith, SA 40, 43 45
deliberative democracy 114-115, 121 devolution 15, 16, 20-21, 309-314, 316-326,
328-329
Dicey, Albert Venn 8-9, 27-47, 56, 146, 258
Law of the Constitution 28, 31-34, 36 40, 45-46
Dicey's rule of law 34, 36, 38-39
Disability Discrim.inaLion Act 1996 (UK) 392 Donoughmore Committee of Inquiry 17, 38, 141 Drinking Water Inspectorate 361 droit administratif 30, 34, 36-37, 39, 40 Duguit, Leon 43, 45
Duncan v Cammell 47, 50-52
Dworkin, Ronald 19, 69, 126, 146, 161, 265, 301
Dyzenhaus, David 107, 155, 160, 162-163, 166-167
Eba case (Eba v Advocate General for Scotland) 243
English administrative law 36-38, 40 45 English constitutionalism 29, 31, 33, 35 Equality Act 2010 (UK) 390, 394-395 Equality and Human Rights Commission 150, 377
Equitable Life case (R(Equitable Members Action Group) v HM Treasury) 247
Erskine May's Treaties on the Law 212, 220
European Charter of Fundamental Rights 190, 196-197, 408
European Convention on Human Rights 13, 78, 86, 89, 107, 119, 150, 164, 196, 279, 303, 393, 399
European Court of Human Rights 108, 158, 121, 215, 271, 272, 274, 275, 276, 396
European Social Charter 394
Expenses scandal 259, 271, 277, 291, 295, 299, 306
Fenwick, Helen 281
Financial Services Authority 359—361, 366, 371, 373, 377, 380
Finnis, John 126
Fisher, Elizabeth 1, 2, 5, 260, 262, 264, 269
Framework for External Support for
Commissioning 341
Franks Committee of Inquiry 38, 236—237 French constitutionalism 29—31, 33, 34, 36 Fredman, Sandra 265, 407
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (UK) 291, 303, 314, 336, 364-365,
Gardner, John 273
Genn, H 144
Ghaidan v Godin Mendoza 158
Gray report 378-379
Griffith, JAG 31, 40 43, 80, 82
Chorley Lecture, ‘The Political
Constitution' 31, 42
Griffith, JAG and Street, H, Principles of
Administrative Law 40—43, 56 green light theory 261, 278, 358, 392 Greene, Lord 50, 52-55
Habermas, J 113-114, 116, 118, 120 Hale, Baroness 118, 167, 169, 175, 211, 239,
240, 241, 243, 295, 302, 393, Hampton Review 370—373, 382 Hansard 201, 222
Harlow, Carol 2, 3, 5, 7, 22
Harlow and Rawlings 260, 261, 269, 353,
392
Harman v Butt 52—54
Hart, HLA 91, 126
Health and Safety Executive 366, 371—373 Health and Social Care Act2008 (UK)
213
Health and Social Care Act 2012 (UK) 340-341, 343
Herceptin case (R (Rodgers) v Swindon Primary Care Trust) 398
Hewart, Lord Chief Justice 37, 38
Hickman, Tom 112, 113, 266 Hiebert, Jane 265, 285
Hogg and Bushell 110,
Holtham Commission 310, 321-322
Hood, Christopher 366, 377 Hope, Lord 80, 316
Hopkins, J 312
House of Commons Committee for Public
Accounts 291
House of Commons Committee on Standards and Privileges 277
House of Lords Liaison Committee 374
Human Rights Act 1998 (UK) 10, 12, 13,
89, 108, 112, 137, 149-150, 155-160, 162-165, 168, 178, 190, 192, 196, 203, 210-211, 213, 234, 266, 279-280, 285, 303, 336, 390
Hunt, Murray 155, 162-163, 167, 174, 285 Hutton Inquiry 253-254
imperium 267
Independent Parliamentary Standards
Authority 271, 277, 299, 305
Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation 283, 284
Inquiries Act 2005 (UK) 252, 256
Irving, Helen 63
Jennings, Sir Ivor 16, 31
The Law and the Constitution 31 JJ case (Secretary of State for the Home Department v JJ) 283-284
Joint Committee on Parliamentary Privilege 271, 275
Joint Ministerial Committee 315, 319 Jones, George 327
Jowell, J 254 judicial accountability
judicial appointments 15, 61-67, 148, 203, 212, 216, 217, 218, 219, 223
Judicial Appointments Commission 201, 204, 207, 218
judicial deference to elected bodies 13, 47, 53-55, 131, 162-165, 167, 169, 171, 174-179
role of judges 15, 100, 111
Judicial Committee of the House of Lords 275 judicial decision-making 10-11, 133, 140 in the context of war 47-53
judicial independence 18, 57-61, 67, 73-74, 137-138, 152, 200, 202, 206, 213-215, 221, 235, 237, 252
judicial review
judicial review of executive action 14, 47, 87-88, 91-93, 97, 99, 103, 137, 160, 180 judicial review in European Union law 181-185, 188-197
judicial review in human rights context 106-108, 110-117, 119, 121-122, 162, 196-197 judicial review, legitimacy of 183-187 natural justice 85-86, 93, 142, 186, 190 procedural fairness 85, 93-94, 99, 125, 135, 138, 142-143, 149, 150-151
ultra vires 79, 91-94, 96, 99, 160 Justice Select Committee 213, 239
Kavanagh, Aileen 281
King, Jeff 391, 402,
Laksi, Harold 42-43, 141-142
Landis, JM 354 Lasser, Mitchel 73 Laws, Sir John 94-98
Lawrence v Texas 109 legal accountability
legal accountability, meaning of 5-6, 12, 27, 31, 126-127, 129, 146 legality, principle of 77—81, 83, 85—90,
92-104, 186-187, 195 legal constitutionalism 77, 82-83 legal positivism 79-82, 99, 104 legal realism 70-71, 73 Leggatt Report 18, 217, 236, 238-239, 240 Legislation and Regulatory Reform Act 2006
(UK) 372
Leigh, I 326
Leopold, Patricia 277 Lester, Anthony 403
Leveson Inquiry 254
Limbuela case (R (on the application of
Limbuela) v Secretary of State for the Home Department) 119
Lisbon Treaty 188, 194, 196
Liversidge v Anderson 48-51 Local Gove.rnme.nL Finance Bill2012 (UK) 327 Localism Act 2011 (UK) 21-22, 326-328, 341,
345, 347-348, 350
Lord Chancellor 15, 201-205, 208, 215-222 Lord Chief Justice 15, 37, 204, 209, 211, 217, 221, 276
Loughlin, M 326
Loveland, Ian 277-278
Macrory Review 372 McNulty Report 378
Maastricht Treaty 188
Marshall, Geoffrey 16 martial law, English 46—47
Mashaw, J 142 military administrative accountability 8-9,
30, 31 Ministerial Code 269-270, 293, 298 Ministry of Justice 15, 18, 203-204, 206, 213,
216, 218, 237-238
MK and AH v Secretary of State for the Home
Department 397
Montesquieu 28-29
MSS v Belgium and Greece 397 Mulgan, Richard 5-6, 7
Nakkuda Ali 49
National Audit Office 356, 367, 370-372,
380-382, 385, 387-388
National Fraud Initiative 315, 316 National Health Service Act2006 (UK) 343 National security 130, 260, 278-281, 283, 285-288, 302-303
Network Rail 364, 378, 382
New Public Management 2-3, 21-22, 326,
333-334, 336-341, 343, 345, 349-353
Deep New Public Management 22, 334, 339-341, 343, 345, 349-352
Post New Public Management 22, 334, 339-340, 345, 349, 350-352
Newton Committee 284
New York Times v Sullivan 273 NHS Commissioning Board 343
Nolan Committee’s Seven Principles of Public
Life 20,291
Northcote Trevelyan Reforms 293, 299
Northern Irish Human Rights
Commission 407
Northern Ireland 20, 292, 300, 305-306, 308-309, 312, 315-316, 318-320, 325-326, 328-329, 407
Northern Ireland Act 1998 306
Occupiers of 51 Olivia Road v City of Johannesburg 122
Office for Judicial Complaints 216, 221
Office of Fair Trading 360
OFCOM 360, 363, 365, 369, 373, 375, 386
OFGEM 360, 372-373, 376, 378-380
OFWAT 360-361, 372-373, 376, 380
Official Journal of the European Union 341
Oliver, Dawn 2, 4, 6, 19-20, 262
Ombudsman: see Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
Outcome Performance Reports 364
Padfield v Minister of Agriculture 298
Palmer, E 394
parliamentary accountability 200, 201, 202, 206, 222, 223, 259, 375
Parliamentary Commissioner for
Administration 5, 6, 17, 18, 137, 151, 263
Parliamentary Commissioner for
Standards 271, 277, 293, 299
Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards 257
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights 13, 149, 158-159, 206, 210, 212-214, 281, 283-285, 287, 407
Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 (UK) 277, 295
parliamentary privilege 205, 260, 268, 270-278, 307
parliamentary sovereignty 16, 35, 79-80, 89, 91-92, 95-96, 95-96, 111, 292
bi-polar sovereignty 82
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 (UK) 295
Pepper v Hart 211, 272
Petrovic v Austria 109
Pettit, Philip 86-87
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1986
(UK) 214
Police (Detention and Bail) Act 2011 (UK) 215 political accountability
indirect political accountability 60, 66
political accountability, meaning of 4, 6, 27, 31, 32, 35, 67
political accountability, development of in the United Kingdom 16-17
political constitutionalism 89, 104
Port, FJ 37, 38, 41, 43
Porter v Magill 298 post-legislative scrutiny 206, 213, 214, 223
PR (Sri Lanka) v Home Secretary 243
Prebble v Television New Zealand 272 pre-legislative scrutiny 206, 217, 223 prerogative writs 16, 19, 36, 38, 39-41, 34,
44, 56
habeas corpus, writ of 39-40, 47, 50
Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (UK) 279, 282, 284
Primary Care Trust 341-342, 398 principles of good administration 31, 94, 151, 242, 293
private finance initiative 341 proportionality 5, 86, 162-163, 165-173, 175-178, 191, 197, 263, 271
Prussian constitutionalism 29-30, 31, 33, 46 Public Accounts Committee 256, 291, 292, 367 Public Administration Select Commission 18, 247, 291-292, 294
Public Bodies Act 2011 (UK) 204-205
public interest principle 19, 290, 292, 297-298, 300-304, 306-308
public service principle 19-20, 290-295, 297-298, 300-304, 306-308
public private partnership 338
R v Amber Valley District Council exp Jackson 296
R v Cambridge Health Authority ex p B 396
R v Chaytor 271-272, 274, 277-278
R v Gloucestershire County Council exp
Barry 396
R v Halliday, ex p Zadig 50-51
R v Kapp 109
R (McDonald) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 392-394, 397-398, 402-404, 407
R v North and East Devon Health Authority ex p Coughlan 392
R v Secretary of State for Social Security, ex p Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants 399
R v Somerset County Council ex p Fewings 297, 302, 304
R v SS for Home Dept, exp Simms 101
R v SS for Home Dept, exp Leech 100
R v Waltham Forest London Borough Council ex p Baxter and others 297
R (Bernard) v London Borough of Enfield 397, 407
R (Binyam Mohamed) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 286
R (Bradley) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 247-248, 250
R (Cart & Ors) v Upper Tribunal & Ors) 97, 239-240, 242-245, 258
R (FL) v Lambeth LBC 398
R (Jackson) v Attorney General 80
R (Jones) v First tier Tribunal 245
R (KM) v Cambridgeshire County Council 393-394, 404, 408
R (on the application of Adam) v Secretary of State for the Home Department 397, 407
R (on the application of Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No 2) 399-400
R (on the application of Corner House Research and others) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office 295, 302
R (Prolife Alliance) v BBC 163
R (Rodgers) v Swindon Primary Care Trust 398
R (SB) v Governors of Denbigh High School
166
R (W) v BirmSinyham. City Council 392 Rawlings, Richard 22, 260-261, 269, 314-315, 345, 392
Rawls, J 116
Raz, Joseph 83, 89-90 red light theory 261, 278, 358 Reducing Regulation Committee 370 referendum 21, 306, 309, 317, 322, 324, 325,
327 regulation 22-23
Regulatory Accountability Panel 370
Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 372-373
Regulatory Reform Act 2006 372-373
Regulatory Impact Unit 370
Regulatory Policy Group 370
Reynolds v Times Newspapers 273 Ridge v Baldwin 48-49, 150 Riot Act 1714 (UK) 46
Risk Regulation Advisory Council 371
Roach, Kent 285
Robson, WA 37, 38, 41, 43 rule of law 5, 6, 36, 38-39, 44, 78-81, 83-86,
89-90, 95-99, 102-103, 140-141, 146, 214, 244, 258, 280, 290, 306, 310, 348, 361, 390, 392, 403
Scotland Act 1998 (UK) 309, 317-318 Scotland Act 2012 (UK) 20, 21, 222, 310, 323, 324, 325, 329
Scott, Colin 2, 5, 268-269
Scott Report 269 Scottish Parliament 310, 312-313, 315-316, 319-320, 323-326
separation of powers: see courts Seven Principles of Public Life: see Nolan
Committee’s Seven Principles of Public Life Single European Act 1986 188 social justice 23-24, 391, 394, 400 402,
405-407, 409
Special Education Needs and Disability Act 2001 (UK) 390
Special Ministerial Advisers 270
spirit of the law 8, 28-29, 31, 33, 56
Steyn, Lord 81, 101, 130, 165, 168
Sunstein, CR 115-116
Supreme Court, Canada 109, 111
Supreme Court, India 109, 113
Supreme Court, United Kingdom 15, 118,
119, 167, 172-173, 208, 215, 216, 220, 243-245, 258, 271, 274, 316, 393, 397-398, 404, 408
Supreme Court, USA 61, 70, 118, 119, 138, 265, 273
TAC case 121
Terrorism Act 2000 (UK) 284
Terrorism Act 2005 (UK) 279, 282, 284
Terrorism Act 2006 (UK) 284 third way 338
Tomkins, Adam 98-99, 102, 261-263, 268, 276, 279, 281, 287
Total Place 340, 345-349
Treasury Select Committee 364-365, 375-376,
381
Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958 (UK) 38,
236
Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (UK) 215, 222, 236, 245
Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill
(UK) 217, 223
United Nations Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 394
Upper Tribunal: see administrative tribunals
Varuhas 248
Vriend v Alberta 111
Wade, ECS: Law of the Constitution 39—41 Wade, HRH iii5, 47
Waldron, Jeremy 19, 106-108, 117, 119, 130, 265
Walker, Clive 284
Wednesbury unreasonableness 52-55, 85, 98,
165, 168, 170, 248, 394, 398-399
Welsh Assembly 321, 360-361, 378, 385 West Lothian Question 20, 311 Wolfe Tone' case 47
Wintemute, Robert 282
Yeung, K 366
YL v Birmingham City Council 213
Young, Alison 266
Zedner, Lucia 279