Administrative law governs the machinery of the state and how the government acts. It regulates the administrative operations of the government and fixes the organization and competence of administrative authorities. Administrative law also indicates remedies for individuals whose rights have been violated. The key concerns of administrative law are protecting private rights from administrative action and overseeing agencies that exercise delegated powers, as they combine different governmental powers like executive and judicial powers.
Administrative law governs the machinery of the state and how the government acts. It regulates the administrative operations of the government and fixes the organization and competence of administrative authorities. Administrative law also indicates remedies for individuals whose rights have been violated. The key concerns of administrative law are protecting private rights from administrative action and overseeing agencies that exercise delegated powers, as they combine different governmental powers like executive and judicial powers.
Administrative law governs the machinery of the state and how the government acts. It regulates the administrative operations of the government and fixes the organization and competence of administrative authorities. Administrative law also indicates remedies for individuals whose rights have been violated. The key concerns of administrative law are protecting private rights from administrative action and overseeing agencies that exercise delegated powers, as they combine different governmental powers like executive and judicial powers.
Administrative law governs the machinery of the state and how the government acts. It regulates the administrative operations of the government and fixes the organization and competence of administrative authorities. Administrative law also indicates remedies for individuals whose rights have been violated. The key concerns of administrative law are protecting private rights from administrative action and overseeing agencies that exercise delegated powers, as they combine different governmental powers like executive and judicial powers.
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ADMINISTRATIVE LAW powers are delegated and judicial powers are granted, and the
extent and manner to which such agencies are subject to
INTRODUCTION control by the Courts. Definition of Administrative Law - Belong to the field of public law which includes constitutional law, criminal law, and international law. Scope of administrative law (covers the laws:) Public law- branch of law which regulates the relations of - Fixes the admin org and structure of the gov’t; the State with its subjects. - execution or enforcement of which os entrusted to admin It concerns itself with rights of the State as an entity authorities; representing the organized community abd the relations of - Governs public officers including their competence, rights, the individual members of such societarian organization to duties, liabilities, election, etc.; it. - which creates administrative agencies, defines their powers and - ”the entire system of laws under which the machinery of the functions, prescribes their procedures including adjudication or State works and by which the Government acts. settlement by them of contested matters involving private - The term would embrace all the laws that regulate or control interests; the administrative organization and operations of the - which provides the remedies, administrative or judicial, government including the legislative and judicial branches. available to those aggrieved by admin decisions; - The law which controls or is intended to control the - which governs judicial review of, or relief against, administrative administrative operations of the government or law of actions/decisions; governmental administration. - rules, regulations, order and decisions (including pres. - “Part of public law which fixes the organization and determines proclamations) made by admin authorities dealing with the the competence of the administrative authorities, and indicates interpretation and enforcement of the laws entrusted their to the individual, remedies for the violation of his rights.” administration; and - Branch of modern law under which the executive dept. acting in - body of judicial decisions and doctrines dealing with any of the a quasi-legislative/judicial capacity, interferes with the conduct above. of the individual for the purpose of promoting the well-being of the community, as under laws regulating public corporations, Administrative Authorities business affected with a public interest, professions, trades and - Those public officers and organs of the government that are callings, rates and prices, laws for the protection of the public charges with the amplification, application, and execution of the health and safety and the promotion of the public convenience law, but do not include, by virtue of the doctrine of separation and advantage. of powers, Congress and the regular Courts. - System of legal principles to settle the conflicting claims of executive and administrative authority on the one hand and of Concerns of administrative law individual or private rights on the other. (1) Private rights - The law concerning the powers and procedures of the Chief concern of the protection of private rights administrative agencies including specially the law governing and its subject matter against administrative judicial review of administrative action. action. - Part of the law which governs the organization, functions, and In certain areas, there is applicable specific procedures of admin. Agencies of the gov’t to which legislatives principle that particular admin agencies are created to protect the public interest and not to vindicate private rights. (2) Delegated powers and combined powers AL is concerned with officers and agencies exercising delegated powers and not with the exercise of the President’s consti powers, Concerned with and results from a fusion of different types of governmental powers in certain public officers which are part of the exec. Branch of the gov’t including coercive power over individuals, since the exercise of this type of power by this type of officer runs afoul of the fundamental and traditional principle of separation of powers.