Subject Title: Administrative Law

Q1: Explain in your own words by referring to authorities the relationship

between the rule of law and judicial review.

everyone is equal before the law

no one can be punished unless they are in clear breach of the law
there is no set of laws which are above the courts.

1. No man could be lawfully interfered or punished by the authorities except for

breaches of law5 established in the ordinary manner before the courts of land.

This indicates that in England, nobody can be thrown into the jail if no law has
been broken. Unless a law is broken, neither a person nor his or her goods can be
lawfully made to suffer. Society is ruled by law. The governments can only do
things that are authorised by or within the law. It means the rule of law is
contrasted with every system of government based on the exercise by person in
authority of wide arbitrary or discretionary powers of constraint.

2. No man is above the law and everyone, whatever his condition or rank is, is
subject to the ordinary laws of the land.

This means that everyone is equal and not based on classes if they break the law.
Everyone will be charged equally to the same law and be subject to the same law
courts. Governments and citizens will obey the same law and no specialty will be
given to anyone.

3. There is no need for a bill of rights because the general principle of the
constitution are the result of judicial decisions determining the rights of the
private person.

Relationship: The rule of law establishes the relationship between government through
administrative law and by the practice of judicial review.

*There is equality for all before the law, that the law is always applied and that legal
redress is available through the courts .