Constitutional & Administrative Law - Complete Guide

This revision guide is the culmination of all the Lessons on the Subject of Constitutional & Administrative Law (Public Law) from the Law Academy. With a new clean format, extra information and key cases clearly highlighted, you are able to follow along with the lessons using this guide!

This is not the most in depth or detailed revision guide on the subject. However, its value comes in being able to concisely understand core legal concepts and be able to illustrate these with key cases. In addition, there is value in your ability to follow along the with the video lessons, providing a concise and clear understanding of the difficult legal concepts necessary for your exams!

How to Use this Guide

To get the best out of this guide, I recommend you follow along with the lessons which are already published. This way you will be able to get the most out of both the guide and the lessons published in order to get a better understanding of the core legal concepts.

Acknowledgements

Cover drawing done by @lotta.obscure.

Disclaimer

This revision guide follows the Law Academy Lessons. Those lessons were made from a culmination of different sources, revision notes and textbooks, all of which are cited in the descriptions of each video. The Citations for this guide and those lessons are:

Lord Bingham, "A Written Constitution?" The Judicial Studies Board 2004 Annual Lecture.

V. Bogandor, The New British Constitution (Hart, 2009).
V. Bogandor & S. Hockman, "Towards a Codified Constitution" [2010] 7(1) Justice Journal 74.

D. Oliver, Constitutional Reform in the UK (Oxford University Press, 2003).
E. Wicks, The Evolution of a Constitution: Eight Key Moments in British Constitutional History (Hard, 2006).

J. Goldsworthy (ed.), Interpreting Constitutions: A Comparative Study (Oxford University Press, 2006).

A. Tomkins, Our Republican Constitution (Hart, 2005).
C. Faragher, Public Law: Concentrate (4th edn, Oxford University Press, 2015).

N. Parpworth, Constitutional & Administrative Law (11th edn, Oxford University Press, 2020).

A. Carroll, Constitutional & Administrative Law (8th edn, Pearsons Foundations Series, 2015).

As always, I am open to any recommendations and suggestions for improvements and highlights of mistakes and errors within the guide. Unfortunately, since the law is a complex area and is ever changing, all texts and lessons on the subject will inevitably be open to errors and mistakes, no matter how minor. Where there are any such errors, suggestions and/or recommendations, feel free to email them to me at: thelawacademy444@gmail.com.