BLS LLB 5 Years Sem 7 Administrative Law Solved Question Papers with Answers 2017 to 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes

Administrative Law asks one question in a hundred forms: when may a court interfere with what the executive has done? Nearly everything on these papers is an answer to it. The delegation of law-making power and the limits on it, the rule against bias and the right to be heard, the grounds on which a discretion may be attacked, the five writs, the liability of the State in tort and in contract, tribunals, and the institutions that check the administration from outside the courts. If you can say what a court is allowed to look at and what it must leave alone, you can answer most of this paper.

Three topics carry the long answer section, and the proportion is not close. Across the thirteen papers solved here there are 63 long answers of 12 or 13 marks, and 32 of them, more than half, are on delegated legislation, on the nature, scope, sources and growth of administrative law, or on the principles of natural justice. Delegated legislation in some form appears as a long answer in 12 of the 13 papers, and the nature and growth question in 9 of them. Prepare those three properly and you have a choice in every paper in this folder.

The situational section is the part most worth preparing in advance, because it is not unpredictable at all. The same small stock of problems comes round with the names changed, and each one is a decided case. A jeep or a car kept for a Collector or a Planning Commission officer knocks down a pedestrian on its way back from the workshop, which is State of Rajasthan against Vidyawati, and appears in five papers. A Director who may exempt a child from the school leaving certificate rule in deserving cases announces that he will never exempt anyone under thirteen, which is the self-imposed fetter, and appears in five papers, twice in the 2019-20 file alone. A senior officer is appointed who does not hold the prescribed qualification, which is quo warranto and Govinda Rao, four papers. A contractor builds for the Government at an officer's request, the Government takes possession and pays nothing, which is Article 299 and Section 70 of the Contract Act and B.K. Mondal, four papers. A police officer appointed by the Commissioner is dismissed by the Deputy Commissioner, which is Article 311(1), three papers. Workers stay away treating a day as a holiday and are dismissed, which is Hind Construction, two papers. An externment order under the Bombay Police Act and an order under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code, two papers each. Learn those eight and you will recognise most of what you are given.

Every situational question in every one of these papers is built the same way, and knowing that is worth marks on the day. One half asks a bookwork question and the other half asks you to apply it. What is administrative discretion, and can the Director's rule be challenged. What is the doctrine of pleasure, and was this dismissal valid. Which liability applies here, and does the King can do no wrong apply. Answer the bookwork half first and in full, because those marks are certain, and then apply it. A candidate who writes only the application throws away half the question.

Three paper shapes run through the folder and the code on the first page tells you which one you are holding. Up to 2019-20 it was 100 marks in three hours: ten short questions of 2 marks, short notes at 5, three situational problems of 6 and four long answers of 12, under Q.P. Code 08752 and then codes 66801 and 66901. From 2022-23 it is 60 marks in two hours under code 66911, and 66811 for one ATKT sitting, in sections of 12, 12, 12 and 24. From 2025-26 there is a third pattern, 75 marks in two and a half hours under code 67141, in sections of 12, 12, 12 and 39. The useful point is that the 60 mark and 75 mark papers have identical first three sections. Thirty six of the marks are the same paper whichever pattern you sit, and only the last section changes, from two long answers of 12 to three of 13.

Two things about the files themselves will save you time. The 2019-20 file is not one paper but two bound together, form 81549 on its first two pages and form 60670 on the next two, each a complete 100 mark paper in its own right, which is why this subject shows fifty answers under a single year. And two papers were each filed twice: the 2024-25 regular and ATKT files are the same document byte for byte, its own margin note reading Regular and ATKT, and the 2018-19 and 2021-22 files are the same printed paper, form number 60668, issued once under code 66801 and once under 66901 with the twenty five questions identical word for word down to the misprint in the rule of law question. Fourteen files in this folder are thirteen papers.

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