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