LAWS5001

Advanced Administrative Law

10 Units 5000 Level Course

Not available in 2014

LAWS courses are only available to students enrolled in Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree programs.

Allows students to develop knowledge of judicial review and assessment of administrative action. Topics include judicial policy and contemporary principles of procedural fairness, judicial supervision of statuary tribunals to ensure jurisdictional legitimacy at law, error of law on the record and immunity from judicial review, and, tortious liability for the exercise of a statutory power.

This LAWS 5000 level elective course is offered on a rotating basis and subject to student demand.

Objectives Information not required in this case
Content The general purpose of this course is to permit students to take up issues and themes encountered, directly or indirectly, in the compulsory course Administrative Law (LAWS4002) and to develop further their knowledge of judicial review and assessment of administrative action. The principle objective of the course is to promote examination of critical areas of development in Australian decisional law that governs public administration.

The course deals with four principal topics:

1 judicial policy and contemporary principles of procedural fairness
2 judicial supervision of statutory tribunals to ensure jurisdictional legitimacy at law
3 judicial review of non-jurisdicational errors of law made by courts and statutory tribunals
4 justiciability and immunity from judicial review
5 tortious liability for the exercise of a statutory power
Replacing Course(s) NA
Transition NA
Industrial Experience 0
Assumed Knowledge LAWS1001A, LAWS1001B, LAWS1002A, LAWS1002B, LAWS2003A, LAWS2003B, LAWS3004A, LAWS3004B, LAWS3005, LAWS4001, LAWS4002.
Modes of Delivery Internal Mode
Teaching Methods Lecture
Assessment Items
Essays / Written Assignments
Examination: Take Home
Contact Hours Lecture: for 3 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Compulsory Components
Requisite by Enrolment This course is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Laws and associated combined degree programs.