A Continental Distinction in the Common Law: A Historical and Comparative Perspective on English Public LawThe development of an autonomous English public law has been accompanied by persistent problems--a lack of systematic principles, dissatisfaction with judicial procedures, and uncertainty about the judicial role. This work compares the recent emergence of a significant English distinction with the entrenchment of the traditional French distinction. It explains how persistent problems of English public law are related to fundamental differences between the English and French legal and political traditions, differences in their conception of the state administration, their approach to law, their separation of powers, and their judicial procedures in public-law cases. |
Contents
Air Canada v Secretary of State for Trade 1983 2 AC 394 80 220 | 7 |
Southampton and South West Hampshire Area Health | 11 |
Union of Post Office Workers 1978 | 26 |
A model distinction in a model setting | 39 |
18 | 45 |
Constant | 52 |
The blurring of the state administration | 58 |
Hull University Visitor 1993 1 All ER 97 184 | 67 |
The separation of powers | 138 |
Panel on Takeovers and Mergers ex p Datafin Plc 1987 | 167 |
A substantive distinction | 170 |
Jonathan Cape Ltd 1976 QB 752 79 | 172 |
Thanet District Council 1983 2 AC 286 923 97 134 | 175 |
The importance of institutional answers | 189 |
Dorset Yacht Co v Home Office 1970 AC 1004 179 181 185 | 190 |
Morgans 1973 AC 127 | 191 |
Continuing acceptance | 69 |
A Trojan horse of the English legal tradition | 72 |
Advertising Standards Authority ex p the Insurance | 77 |
Criminal Injuries Compensation Board ex p Lain 1967 | 90 |
BBC ex p Lavelle 1983 1 WLR 23 91 | 91 |
Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food 1989 | 92 |
An Bord Bainne Cooperative Ltd Irish Dairy Board v Milk | 93 |
The implications of privatization | 101 |
The irony of the English distinction | 107 |
The preRevolutionary division | 117 |
The secretion of legal principles | 126 |
Merton London Borough Council 1978 | 130 |
Home Secretary ex p Khan 1984 1 WLR 1337 | 131 |
The procedural contrast | 207 |
Lecomte and Daramy CE 24 June 1949 173 | 222 |
Ponting 1985 Crim LR 318 79 | 224 |
Baldwin Francis Ltd v Patents Appeal Tribunal 1959 | 229 |
Conclusions and implications for English law | 235 |
RollsRoyce plc 1992 1 CMLR 1045 1992 | 239 |
Amalgamated Engineering Union 1971 2 QB 175 | 241 |
Italian Republic C690 C990 1991 | 245 |
Home Office 1990 ICR 824 95 | 246 |
AFTERWORD | 247 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 253 |
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Common terms and phrases
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