Unlocking Constitutional and Administrative Law

Authors: Mark Ryan is Senior Lecturer in Law at Coventry University. Steve Foster is Principal Lecturer at Coventry University. Series Editors Chris Turner LLM is a qualified barrister and a Senior Lecturer in Law at Wolverhampton University. He has taught law at all levels and is an experienced author whose previous titles include Unlocking Contract Law and Unlocking Torts. Jacqueline Martin LLM has ten years' experience as a practising barrister and has taught law at all levels. She is an experienced author among whose titles is Unlocking Criminal Law. Jacqueline Martin and Chris Turner are also series editors of the Key Facts and Key Cases series, both published by Hodder Arnold.

Chapter 1 Introductory Concepts
Chapter 2 Constitutions
Chapter 3 The nature of the British constitution
Chapter 4 The sources of the British constitution
Chapter 5 The separation of powers
Chapter 6 The rule of law
Chapter 7 Parliamentary sovereignty
Chapter 8 Parliament I: Nature, functions and privilege
Chapter 9 Parliament II: The House of Commons
Chapter 10 Parliament III: The House of Lords
Chapter 11 The executive
Chapter 12 Executive/parliamentary relations
Chapter 13 The Judiciary
Chapter 14 The decentralisation of public power
Chapter 15 The European Community
Chapter 16 The European Convention on Human Rights
Chapter 17 The Human Rights Act 1998
Chapter 18 Freedom of Speech
Chapter 19 Judicial review I (rationale and procedure)
Chapter 20 Judicial review II (grounds of review and remedies)
Chapter 21 Grievance mechanisms
Chapter 22 Constitutional developments and reform
Index