Description
Constitutional and administrative law is a wide-ranging survey of the law about government. It includes the working of Parliament, the legal system (in outline), the police, public administration and Commonwealth affairs. Each aspect of the subject is described and illustrated by reference to practice or case law.
The Second Edition covers many important new developments. The constitutional effects of Britain's entry into the European Communities are discussed and an Appendix outlines the main features of the law of the Communities. The changes in local government and in the machinery of justice are explained and examined, and the new immigration laws and their effects are described in some detail. In addition, the case law is updated and expanded, and new social and political developments, in the part on 'Civil Rights and Freedom' for example, are traced. The final part on 'Commonwealth Affairs' has also been expanded to include more material on the constitutional position of Northern Ireland. For law students and students of the British Constitution alike, this is the most readable work on its subject.
'The subject is one of far greater overall importance to all citizens today than are many other branches of law; Professor de Smith's mastery of it is undisputed and, perhaps crucial for any Penguin book, he has a rare gift for lucid, lively writing. The result is a comprehensive work, scholarly, accurate, and written in a style that would grace any English literary series which prided itself equally upon clarity of expression and felicity of style' Cambridge Law Journal
ISBN:0140802231
