Full Description
Public Law Concentrate is written and designed to help you succeed. Written by experts and covering all key topics, Concentrate guides go above and beyond, not only consolidating your learning but focusing your revision and maximising your exam performance. Each guide includes revision tips, advice on how to achieve extra marks, and a thorough and focused breakdown of the key topics and cases.
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Digital formats and resources
The eighth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by extensive online resources to take your learning further (www.oup.com/lawrevision/).
The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
The online resources include:
- advice on revision and exam technique from experienced examiner Nigel Foster;
- a diagnostic test to help you pinpoint areas to focus your revision on;
- interactive glossary and key cases to help you revise key terminology, facts, and principles;
- multiple choice questions to test your knowledge; and
- outline answers to questions in the book.
Contents
1: Introduction to constitutional law
2: Sources of constitutional law and constitutional conventions
3: The rule of law
4: The separation of powers
5: Parliamentary government and the legislative process
6: Parliamentary sovereignty
7: The monarchy and the Royal Prerogative
8: The executive: central, devolved, and local government
9: European Union law and institutions
10: Introduction to administrative law: the foundations and extent of judicial review
11: Grounds for judicial review: illegality
12: Grounds for judicial review: irrationality, proportionality, merits-based judicial review, and the Human Rights Act 1998
13: Grounds for judicial review: procedural impropriety, natural justice, and legitimate expectation
14: Introduction to human rights in UK law
15: Police powers, public order, and terrorism
