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The questions below are the paper as the University of Mumbai set it at the Jan 2024 - 75/25 examination, in the order it was set.
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Duration 2½ hours · Total marks 75 · 21 questions answered
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Q.1
Answer any six in two sentences 12 Marks
(1)Definition of Administrative Law by Ivor Jennings.[2]
Answer
Sir Ivor Jennings, in The Law and the Constitution, defined administrative law as "the law relating to the administration. It determines the organisation, powers and duties of administrative authorities."
The three things his definition covers.
- Organisation. How administrative authorities are set up: departments, corporations, commissions, boards and tribunals.
- Powers. What they may do. These are of three kinds, rule-making or quasi-legislative, adjudicatory or quasi-judicial, and purely administrative.
- Duties. What they must do, and the procedure they must follow while doing it.
Why it is the most quoted definition. It is short, it is wide, and it describes the subject from the side of the administration rather than from the side of the remedy.
The two criticisms of it.
- It is too wide. On this definition much of constitutional law becomes administrative law, since the Constitution also organises the executive and fixes its powers.
- It is incomplete. It says nothing about the remedies available to a citizen, and nothing about judicial review, which is the heart of the subject in India. K.C. Davis supplied both when he defined administrative law as the law concerning the powers and procedures of administrative agencies, including especially the law governing judicial review of administrative action.
Conclusion. Jennings defines administrative law as the law relating to the administration, determining the organisation, powers and duties of administrative authorities. Learn the sentence word for word, because examiners ask for it by name. Then add one line of criticism: it leaves out the citizen's remedies, which Sir William Wade captured better when he called administrative law the law relating to the control of governmental power.
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