Administrative Law Full Semester Notes

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Complete semester notes: Week 1: Introduction; theory, history and context; and constitutional considerations Week 2: Executive power and administrative decision-making; subordinate legislation and delegated decision-making Week 3: Merits review - tribunals (their nature, role and structure); procedure and evidence of tribunals Week 4: Merits review - other review methods and bodies; recap of merits review; intro to judicial review Week 5: Judicial review - introduction; statutory framework and common law review Week 6: limits on judicial review - legality/ merits distinction; justiciability; standing; privative clauses; 'matter' Week 7: Unauthorised decision-making Week 8: judicial review - grounds for review (statutory and common law); law, fact and evidence Week 9: jurisdictional error and jurisdictional fact; procedural fairness/ natural justice Week 10: statutory purpose and relevant considerations; unreasonableness, fraud and bad faith Week 11: Judicial review remedies; obtaining reasons for decisions Week 12: Access to information and privacy; putting it all together