PHILIPPINE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

1. Definition
2. Scope / What it embraces
3. Executive Bureaucracy, what it consists of (5)
4. Administrative Law
a. In particular
b. In more specific terms
5. Administrative Law, what it consists of (4)
6. Characteristics of Administrative Law (5)
7. Principal Subdivisions of Administrative Law (2)
8. Administrative Agencies
a. Agency
b. Nature of Administrative Agencies
c. Character of Administrative Agencies
d. Creation and Abolition of Administrative Agencies
e. Powers of Administrative Agencies
1. Discretionary Power
2. Ministerial Duty
9. Administrative Relationships
a. Supervision and control
b. Administrative supervision
c. Attachment
10.Settlement of controversies among government offices and corporations
a. on Questions of Law
b. on Mixed Questions of Law and of Fact or only Factual Issues
11.Ordinance Power of the President
a. Executive Orders
b. Administrative Orders
c. Proclamations
d. Memorandum Orders
e. Memorandum Circulars
f. General or Special Orders
12.Quasi-Legislative Power
a. Rule-making power
b. Power of Subordinate Legislation
c. Legislative Power v. Quasi-Legislative Power

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 d. Tests of valid Delegation
1. Completeness Test
2. Sufficient Standard Test
e. Kinds of Administrative Rules and Regulations
1. Supplementary or Detailed Legislation
2. Interpretative Rules and Regulations
3. Contingent Legislation
4. Procedural Rules and Regulations
5. Internal Rules and Regulations
f. Requisites for validity of Administrative Rules and Regulations (CUP-Pro-Pen)
g. Amendment/Repeal of Administrative Rules and Regulations
h. Formal Requirements (9)
13.Quasi-Judicial Power
a. Definition
b. Determinative Powers of an Administrative Body
1. Enabling Powers
2. Directing Powers
c. Judicial Power v. Quasi-Judicial Power (3)
d. Other Quasi-Judicial or Adjudicatory Powers
1. Summary Powers
2. Dispensing Powers
3. Examining Powers
e. Construal of Specific Powers
f. Subpoena Powers
g. Contempt Power
1. General Rule
2. Exception (2 Conditions)
h. Aspects of Adjudication
1. To hear and receive evidence
2. Decision-making
i. Formal Requirements for Decisions under the Administrative Code (5)
j. Due Process in Administrative Proceedings (“And Tibay” Doctrine) (7)
k. Specific Requirements of Due Process under the Administrative Code
1. Notice
2. Hearing
3. Cases when Notice and Hearing may be dispensed with (SC-D-PG)

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 l. Is the Right to Counsel indispensable in Administrative Proceedings?
m. Is the Right against Self-Incrimination applicable in Administrative Proceedings? (3)

14.Administrative Appeals
a. Doctrine of Primary Jurisdiction/Prior Resort
b. Doctrine of Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies
1. Bases (4)
2. Exceptions (10)
c. Rules Relative to Administrative Appeals (7)

15.Judicial Review of Administrative Determinations

a. Administrative decisions involving QUESTIONS OF FACT
b. Resolution of QUESTIONS OF LAW
16.Rules relative to Judicial Review of Administrative Determinations. (6)