Textbook on Administrative Law

Peter Leyland , Gordon Anthony

This edition appears just over two years after the Coalition Government was

formed following the 2010 general election. The text has been fully revised to reﬂect policy changes impacting on administrative law. Apart from cutbacks in public services and the promotion of the ‘big society’ idea across a range of areas, these include a number of signiﬁcant statutes such as the European Union Act 2011, the Localism Act 2011, the Public Bodies Act 2011, and the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (the corresponding Bill had been introduced by the pre- vious Labour Government). As with earlier editions, a substantial proportion of the book is devoted to analysing the pivotal area of judicial review and the most prominent cases since the publication of the sixth edition are discussed in context. These include: Home Secretary v AF, HM Treasury v Ahmed, Ali v Birmingham City Council, Manchester City Council v Pinnock (Nos 1 & 2), R (E) Governing Body and the Admissions Panel of JFS, AXA General Insurance Ltd v Lord Advocate, R (Cart) v Upper Tribunal,7 R (on the Applicaton of McDonald) v Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and R (Shoesmith ) v OFSTED.