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Protection of the Public—
A New Challenge
by
The Right Hon. Sir Harry Woolf, LLB.
Fellow of University College. London.
Based on the forty-first series of Hamlyn Lectures,
this book charts the growth and describes the fundamental
characteristics of administrative law. The
author takes as his starting point the conclusion of
Lord Denning's Hamlyn Lectures, Freedom Under
the Law, delivered in 1949, warning against the
abuse of power by the executive and the need for the
courts to develop new remedies to counteract possible
abuse.
Sir Harry Woolf identifies the features of our system
which have enabled administrative law to develop so
rapidly in recent years. He continues to examine the
way in which these features could be used to achieve
the further progress he believes is still needed to
ensure that the public are adequately protected
against the abuse of the executive's ever-increasing
power.
Discussion falls into four sections:
• Features of the present process of judicial review
• The extension of judicial review by the courts
• Alternatives to judicial review
• Reforms
Drawing on his extensive experience both as barrister
and as judge. Sir Harry Woolf concentrates on the
practicalities of everyday administrative procedure.
Protection of the Public is lively reading and will
prove a thought-provoking stimulus to all interested
in how the power of the executive may be tempered
in its application to individual citizens.
Published under the auspices of ISBN 0 420 48290 3
THE HAMLYN TRUST
1989 Also available in paperback