LLM Group 1 Constitutional and Administrative Law Administrative Process and Judicial Control Solved Question Papers with Answers 2015 to 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes

Administrative Process and Judicial Control is Paper V of LLM Group I, subject code 70501, and the first thing to establish is how many papers this folder actually holds. Five files hold eight distinct printed papers, because three of the scans carry two complete and different papers each: the file labelled 2016 holds Q.P. Codes 311300 and 11865, the 2018 file holds Q.P. Codes 29533 and 34166, and the three page 2019 file holds form 69691 on page one and form 77767 on pages two and three, the third page being form 77767's Marathi translation and not a separate paper. Only 2015 and 2025-26 are single papers.

The shape has never moved. All eight papers print seven questions, ask for any four, state that all questions carry equal marks and total 100 in three hours, so every question is worth exactly twenty five. Six of the eight print that figure against each question; the two 2019 papers print only the total, and twenty five is the paper's own arithmetic either way. You are choosing four topics out of seven with no compulsory question in any sitting, and each answer has about forty five minutes and should be written at the length forty five minutes allows.

Six topics carry the whole subject, and this was checked question by question rather than estimated. Judicial review, meaning its grounds, its scope and its limits, is in every paper, and so are the writs, whether as a full question on Article 32 or Articles 226 and 227 or as a note on a single writ. Natural justice, meaning the hearing or the rule against bias, is in seven of the eight, the exception being Q.P. Code 29533. Delegated legislation is also in seven, the exception being Q.P. Code 311300. Legitimate expectation and the French droit administratif are in six each. Those six answer at least six of the seven questions on every paper in the folder, and all seven on five of them, against the four you actually have to write.

After the core six comes the tier the notes questions are drawn from. A clause designed to keep the courts out, whether a finality clause, an exclusionary clause or a conclusive evidence clause, is set in six of the eight papers. Res judicata is in five and is usually paired with latches. Administrative discretion as a question in its own right is in four. Injunction and declaration, public interest litigation and latches are in three each, and proportionality and ultra vires in two each. Most of these appear as short notes rather than as full questions, which means each is worth about twelve and a half marks inside a twenty five mark answer.

The examiner reuses whole stems, and not only across years. The quotation beginning "State actions are amenable in the panorama of Judicial review only to the extent that the state must act validly for discernible reasons" is set word for word in 2015 as question 3 of Q.P. Code 15861 and again in 2018 as question 1 of Q.P. Code 29533. The question on the circumstances in which delegated legislation can be declared void is identical in 15861 and in 11865. More striking, the two papers inside the 2016 file set the pre-decisional and post-decisional hearing question and the Articles 226 and 227 question in identical words as each other. Reading two papers from different years therefore teaches you more than reading both papers out of one file.

Six questions in this folder are built on a decision named in the stem, and on those an answer that mentions the case in passing has misread the question. Q.P. Code 29533 sets the review of discretionary power through Liversidge v. Anderson and Padfield. Q.P. Code 34166 sets pre-decisional and post-decisional hearing through Ridge v. Baldwin, the principle of hearing through Maneka Gandhi, and the writs through Dr. Ambedkar's description of the right to constitutional remedies as the heart and soul of the Constitution. Form 69691 sets the hearing through Swadeshi Cotton Mills v. Union of India, and form 77767 sets the quasi-judicial and administrative distinction through A.K. Kraipak v. Union of India. Each of those wants the facts, the holding and the reasoning set out in full.

One point about the folder itself, because it will confuse anyone who opens the file. The second page of the 2025-26 scan does not belong to this subject at all. Its running head reads subject code 70505, Group V Criminal Law and Criminal Administration, Paper V, Penology, it is footed form 92886, and its questions are the Marathi text of a penology paper on theories of punishment, the death penalty, probation, open prisons and plea bargaining. It is a misfiled page. Only page one of that file is Administrative Process and Judicial Control, and only page one is solved here.

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