Notes on the latest Indian text on Administrative Law:

Bhagabati & Bhaskar, Judicial Control of Administrative Action, (Nagpur, LexisNexis Butter!orths "adh!a, #nd ed$, #%&#'$

1. I am now fully vindicated by the format adopted in a new Indian Administrative Law textbook. I have been severely criticised for adopting the format I have adopted since I have endeared myself to the outh African! Indian and "ong #asic Law models. I would usually start off my Administrative Law lectures by focusing on the $onstitution emphasising on the %reamble! &ounding %rovisions in %art I of the $onstitution! #ill of 'ights usually in %art II of the $onstitution! then proceeding to the enforcement fundamental rights and constitutional remedies before going on to Wednesbury review and (rder )* of the 'ules of $ourt and finally to ** of the outh African $onstitution and the outh African laws under **. +. ,he last chapter of the Indian textbook deals specifically with the -$harter of 'ights-. It is the heart or most important part of the book or at the end of the Administrative Law course. It is our expanded! extended and implied #ill of 'ights against lawlessness! oppression! exploitation and manipulation and marginalisation in the face of intensifying pace of globalisation. It acts as a check against abuses of powers by the government as well as exploitations by modern businesses as well as unfair and oppressive laws. .here is this $harter sourced from/ &rom the great and salient features of the world0s great and progressive constitutions! international human rights conventions and landmark cases of the courts in the common law as well as civil law 1urisdictions. ,here are universal values or standards. ,his $harter constitutes our ultimate dreams to freedoms and liberties where we are empowered to pursue and achieve our dreams and aspirations to their maximum limits or heights. .ithout this $harter! humanity will be marginali2ed more

and more leading to breakdown in the law and order in contemporary societies and eventually to failed states. *. It 3the format adopted by this book4 practically makes books written by the so5called constitutional lawyers of our time nothing or so insignificant. I sincerely hope that you appreciate what I am driving at here6 7. %lease see the document attached on the brief 8,able of $ontents0 for the said text.