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LLB Part 3 Administrative Law Past Papers 2007-2019

• July 22, 2018
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Past Papers of Administrative Law for LL.B Part 3 is provided for your better experience in competing the examination. The paper of Administrative Law is a compulsory paper in LL.B part 3. Administrative Law is much important to understand by especially by whom who want to join the government department after their LL.B degree. Let’s have a look at the past papers of Administrative Law of LL.B Part 3 and prepare your mind for your  examination:

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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019

LL.B Part 3 Administrative Law Past Papers 2007 To Onward

Administrative law ll.b part-iii annual 2007 paper-v.

Attempt Six questions, including Two questions from each part. The question in Part-I carries 20 marks each and Parts-II and III carry 15 Marks each.

Q.1 Define and explain Administrative Law and also discuss its importance and historical background.

Q.2 Write notes on the following:

(a) The doctrine of Ultra Vires

(b) Restrictions on the exercise of writ jurisdiction.

Q.3 What do you understand by the concept of “Separation of Powers”?

Q.4 What is the jurisdiction of High Court to review an administrative action under the Constitution of Pakistan? Discuss with reference to relevant provisions of the Constitution.

Q.5 What is meant by retirement from service? Is employment after retirement allowed under the Civil Servant Act, 1973?

Q.6 What are the penalties under the Government Servants (E&D) Rules, 1973? Discuss.

Q.7 Under what circumstances the services of a Civil Servant can be terminated without notice?

Q.8 What is the procedure prescribed by Punjab Service Tribunal Procedure Rules; 1975 for the hearing of an appeal of Civil Servant?

Q.9 What is the difference between Promotion and out of turn Promotion of a Civil Servant?

Q.10 Write a detailed note on the establishment and Powers of the benches of Punjab Services Tribunals.

Q.11 Write a note on:

(i) Dismissal from service

(ii) Seniority

Q.12 What do you understand by “Appointment of a Civil Servant on Probation”?

Administrative Law LL.B PART-III ANNUAL 2008 Paper-V

Q.1 What do you understand by the term Judicial- Review? Discuss the scope of Judicial Review with reference to Pakistan.

Q.2 What is delegated legislation? What Principles are adopted for its judicial Control?

Q.3 Discuss the role and importance of Ombudsman at Provincial level in Pakistan?

Q.4 It is a basic principle of natural justice that the deciding authority `should be without bias. Define the term bias and analyses its different types.

Q.5 Discuss administrative discretion as a ground for judicial review in Pakistan?

Q.6 Define the term ‘writ’. Discuss the Principles relating to the issuance of a writ of ‘mandamus’ and writ of Habeas Corpus.

Q.7 Who is competent to file an appeal before the Service Tribunal under the Service Tribunal Act, 1973. Also state the procedure to be adopted for such appeal?

Q.8 Discuss the evolution, composition and jurisdiction of tribunals under the Punjab Service Tribunal Act 1974?

Q.9 What is “Ombudsman”? Highlight its importance. Also distinguish this remedy form ‘writ’.

Q.10 Discuss “declaration” and “injunction” as equitable remedies against an administrative action.

Administrative Law LL.B PART-III ANNUAL 2009 Paper-V

Q1 What is Administrative Law? What factors are responsible for the development and evolution of Administrative Law?

Q2 Discuss in detail the difference between substantive and delegated legislation, also throwing light on growth and different methods of control of delegated legislation.

Q3 Write a comprehensive note on the establishment and powers of the benches of the Punjab Service Tribunals?

Q4 Define and explain probation and promotion of a civil servant under Punjab Civil Servant Act, 1973.

Q5 What is the period of limitation for filing an appeal under the Service Tribunal Act, 1973?

Q6 What are the penalties under the Government Servants (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules, 1973?

Q7 Identify various penalties which could be imposed on a civil servant proved guilty of misconduct.

Q8 What is meant by the Principles of Natural justice? Elaborate “Audi Alturam Partem”.

Q9 Why do we need judicial control of Administrative action?

Q10 Define the term ‘writ’. Discuss the Principles relating to the issuance of a writ of ‘mandamus’ and writ of Habeas Corpus

Administrative Law LL.B PART-III ANNUAL 2010 Paper-V

Q.1. What do you understand by the term “Judicial Review”? Also -discuss its scope with reference to Pakistan.

Q.2. Why do you need judicial control of an administrative action? Discuss.

Q.3. What do you understand by the Principle of “Rule of Law”? Explain in detail.

Q.4. Explain the major differences between a Service Tribunal and an ordinary Court.

Q.5. Explain the- composition and jurisdiction of the Punjab Sep, ice Tribunal under the Punjab Service Tribunal Act.

Q.6.Who is competent to file an appeal before the Service Tribunal under the Service Tribunal Act, 1973? Also state the procedure to be adopted for such appeal.

Q.7.What is period of limitation to file an appeal by a civil servant before the Punjab Service Tribunal? Does the Limitation Act, 1908 apply to such appeal?

Q.8 What do you understand by the term probation? Also discuss the principles about appointment of a civil servant on probation.

Q.9 Discuss declaration and injunctions as equitable in administrative action.

Q.10 Write notes on the following:

(i) Aggrieved person (ii) Locus Standi

Administrative Law LL.B PART-III ANNUAL 2011 Paper-V

Q.1. What is Administrative Law? Flow does it differ with Constitutional Law?

Q.2 What.is delegated legislation? What are the principles adopted for its judicial control?

Q.3 What do you understand by the concept of Separation of Powers? Explain.

Q.4 It is a basic principle of Natural Justice that the deciding authority should he without any bias. Define the term bias and analyse its different Ways.

Q.5 Explain powers of the Punjab Service Tribunal against the final order of a Departmental Authority.

Q.6 Define the term writ. Discuss the principles relating to the issuance of writ of Mandamus and Habeas Corpus.

Q.7 Identify various penalties which could be imposed on a civil servant proved guilty of misconduct.

Q.8 Write a note on:

(a) Promotion (b) Appointment or Probation

Q.9 What is meant by the Principles of Natural Justice? Discuss them in detail.

Q.10 Discuss declaration and injunctions as an equitable remedy against an administrative action.

Administrative Law LL.B PART-III ANNUAL 2012 Paper-V

Q.1 Although it is hard to differentiate administrative law from the constitutional law but try to define it and throw light on its historical developments.

Q.2 Rule of law is the hallmark of administrative law. Can you explain the theory advanced by Dicey and its modern concepts?

Q.3 Write a note on the following:

(a) Locus Stap Audi Alteram Partem

Q.4 Lawmaking power delegated by a legislature to administrative authorities is exposed to abuse, Can you suggest different forms of control arrest such-art abuse?

Q.5 To check an abuse of discretionary powers by the administrative authorities, the institution of an ‘ombudsman provides an inexpensive and expeditious justice. Throw light on it in detail.

Q.6 What is judicial review of an administrative action? Discuss.

Q.7 Promotion and seniority are very important rights of a civil servant. Throw light on them.

Q.8 What is a memorandum of an appeal and especially discuss its contents in detail.

Q.9 Elaborate administrative ‘minor and major Punishments for which a civil servant is liable in the case of various charges framed against him.

Q.10 The service tribunal under the Punjab Civil Servant Act and Rules in an effective. forum against an unlawful administrative action. Elaborate its powers and functions.

Administrative Law LL.B PART-III ANNUAL 2014 Paper-V

Q1 What is Delegated Legislation? What is the necessity of Delegated legislation? Please indicate the various classification of Delegated Legislation? Is there any Limitation in Delegated legislation?

Q2 Please explain in detail the notion of Rule of law as enunciated by Prof. A.V. Dicey? Also, critically analyze I with French concept “Droit Administratif’?

Q3 What do you know about Judicial Review? Please explain in detail the landmark cases of judicial review? Marbury V Madison (1803) and McCulloch V Maryland (1819)?

Q4 Please explain in detail the principle of:

Q5 Audi Alteram Pattern? Also, discuss Breach of the Audi there any restriction on the exercise of Writ Jurisdiction?

Q6 Please writes in detail the office of Ombudsman at federal level? How independent is the office of federal Ombudsman?

Q7 Define and explain the following:

(a)Review of Findings of Law of Findings of Fact (b) Bias

Q8 What do you know about the growth of Administrative Tribunals? Where the appeal lies against the decisions of the Administrative Tribunals? How independent are the administrative Tribunals in Pakistan?

Q9 Please explain in detail the following:

(a) Promotion (b) Termination of Service (c)Employment after Retirement,

Q10 Please specify the procedure to be observed by the Inquiry of the accused person under the Punjab Civil Servants (E & D) Rules, 1975.

Administrative Law LL.B PART-III ANNUAL 2015 Paper-V

Q1. Define and explain the development of Administrative Law? Please explain the nature and scope of administrative law?

Q2. What do you know about Judicial Review? Please explain in detail the landmarks cases of judicial review? Marbury V Madison (1803) and Mc Culloch V Maryland (1819)?

Q3. What is Delegated Legislation? What are the various reasons for the growth of Delegated Legislation? Please indicate various classification of Delegated Legislation?

Q4. Please explain in detail the principles of Audi Alteram Partem and nem judex in causa sua? Also, discuss breach of these rules?

Q5. What are the various prerogative writs and constitutional remedies available to the aggrieved person? Is there any restriction on the exercise to Writ Jurisdiction?

Q6. Please write in detail the office of Ombudsman at federal level? How independent is the office of federal Ombudsman?

Q7. What do you understand by Judicial control of Administrative Discretion? What is the doctrine of promissory estoppels?

Q8. Define and explain the following:

(b) Review under the jurisdictional principle.

Q9. Please explain in detail the following:

(a) Provident Fund (b) Right of Appeal of Representation (c) Termination of Service.

Q10. Please Specify the procedure to be observed by the Inquiry officer on Inquiry Committee during an Inquiry of the accused person under the Punjab Civil Servants (E&D) rules, 1975.

Administrative Law LL.B PART-III ANNUAL 2017 Paper-V

Note: Attempt any FIVE questions in all FOUR questions from Part-I and ONE question from Part-II. All questions carry equal mark.

Q.1 Please explain in detail the concept of Rule of Law as enunciated by Prof. A.V. Dicey? Also, critically analyze it with French perception “Droit Administrate”?

Q.2 Define and explain Administrative Law? Please elaborate the concept of separation of powers in comparative perspective. i.e. UK, U.S and Pakistan?

Q.3 What is Delegated Legislation? What are the various reasons for growth of Delegated Legislation? Please explain in detail the Title based classification of Delegated Legislation?

Q.4 What is meant by Judicial Control of Administrative Discretion? Please explain the concept in detail.

Q.5 What do you know about Judicial Review? Please explain in detail the landmark cases of judicial review? Marbury V Madison (1803) and McCulloch V Maryland (1819)?

Q.6 Write a note on the following:

a) The Jurisdictional Principle or Doctrine of Ultra Vires

b) Review of Findings of Law and Findings of Fact.

Q.7 The principles of Natural Justice occupy a unique place in administrative law? Please elaborate and explain the concept in detail?

Q.8 Please explain in detail the Constitutional Law Remedies/Public Law Remedies available to the aggrieved party?

Q.9 Define and explain the following under the Civil Servants Act 1973:

a) Promotion b) Probation c) Termination of Service

Q.10 What are the various kinds of Penalties? What procedure to be observed by the authorized officer in case of initiation of proceedings against the accused person under the Punjab Civil Servants (E & D) Rules, 1975?

Administrative Law LL.B PART-III ANNUAL 2018 Paper-V

1.  What is delegated legislation? What is the necessity of delegated Legislation? Please indicate various classifications of delegated legislation? Is there any limitation on delegated legislation?

2.  Please explain in detail the notion of Rule of Law as enunciated by Prof. A.V. Diecy. Also, critically analyze it with French concept “Droit Administratif.”

3.  What do you know about Judicial Review? Please explain in detail the landmark case of Judicial Review. Marbury Vs. Madison (1803) and McCulloch Vs. Maryland (1819).

4.  Please explain in detail the principle of Audi Alteram Partem. Also, discuss Breach of the Audi Alteram Partem rule.

5.  What is “Writ Jurisdiction” of High Court? Please explain all the prerogative writs in detail. Is there any restriction on the exercise of writ jurisdiction?

6.  Please write in detail the office of Ombudsman at federal level? How independent is the office of Federal Ombudsman?

7.  Define and explain the following:

• Review of Findings of Law and Findings of Fact

8.  What do you know about the growth of administrative Tribunals? Where the appeal lies against the decisions of the Administrative Tribunals? How independent are the Administrative Tribunals in Pakistan?

9.  Please explain in detail the following:

• Termination of Service
• Employment after Retirement

10.  Please specify the procedure to be observed by the inquiry officer during an inquiry of the accused person under the Punjab Civil Servants (E & D) Rules, 1975.

Administrative Law LL.B PART-III ANNUAL 2019 Paper-V

1. Define and explain the development of Administrative Law? Please explain about the nature and scope of administrative law? Please specify how it enters into Pakistan?

2. What do you know about Judicial Review? Please explain in detail the landmark cases of judicial review? Marbury V Madison (1803) and McCulloch V Maryland (1819)? What was the impact of the decisions of these cases on the judiciaries of the world?

3. What is Delegated Legislation? What is judicial, legislative and procedural control of Delegated Legislation? Is there any restriction on Delegated Legislation?

4. Please explain in detail the principles of Audi Alteram Partem and Nemo judex in causa sua? Also, discuss the Breach of these rules?

5. What are the various prerogative writs and constitutional remedies available to the aggrieved person? Is there any restriction on the exercise of Writ Jurisdiction?

6. Please explain in detail the office of Ombudsman at the federal level? How independent is the office of Federal Ombudsman? Do you think the decisions of the Ombudsman provide an adequate remedy to the aggrieved person?

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Administrative law is the body of law that deals with the procedures, authority, and actions involved in public administration. It incorporates the various powers, responsibilities, duties, and functions of public agencies and agency officials in the attempted advancement of their respective missions, along with judicial decisions that help structure these exercises of authority. The expansion and progression of administrative law have been concomitant with the growth of the administrative state in the twentieth century as governmental bureaucracy has developed to deal with pressing social, economic, and political problems emanating from modern society. In other words, at its core, administrative law is the branch of law that regulates the exercise of authority by executive branch officials.

A focus of much of administrative law is on the protocols and procedures to which government agencies must adhere to take legal and constitutionally acceptable actions that affect private parties. Thus, it can be said that the corpus of administrative law is composed of efforts to ensure that governmental agencies effectively implement public policies designed to advance the public interest, and at the same time to guarantee that the liberty of private interests are safeguarded from possible and potential administrative infringements. Rephrased, administrative law is a fluid and ever-evolving area of law that endeavors to reconcile and synthesize public and private interests—agencies are in place to help government fulfill its mission, but they may not violate individual liberties.

In the American context at the federal level, there are four main sources of administrative law: the U.S. Constitution, the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 (APA), particular agency enabling acts, and administrative common law. The APA is a federal law that directly lays out the procedures agencies must follow and creates the legal structure for review by the federal courts of agency actions. At the core of motivation behind the enactment of the APA was Congress’s wish to not allow executive agencies so much leeway in the conduct of their duties that executive agents would be able to drift away from congressional intentions and desires in the law that the executive was implementing. The great and abrupt growth of the administrative state under President Franklin Roosevelt communicated to Congress the need for such structures as the APA to rein in and guide executive actions. Similar legislative concerns are manifested also in the drafting of agency enabling acts that set out the boundaries of agency authority and purpose and the use of the legislative veto .The actual, day-to-day implementation of public policy and enforcement of laws remains a continuing source of political and institutional tension between the executive branch and the Congress.

Agencies are the entities that actually execute the laws that the legislature has enacted, and they engage in several types of activities when enforcing these laws. These agency activities include the regulation of private conduct, the disbursement of entitlements, the management of governmental property, the granting of licenses and permits, engaging in investigations and gathering of information, and the making of public policy. The vast majority of what agency officials do ends up having important consequences on the lives of private parties, by preventing them or allowing them to engage in a particular action, or giving them or taking away some form of benefit. Two important sets of actions that agencies engage in when performing such activities are rulemaking and the issuance of an order after an adjudication of a dispute. Rulemaking is essentially where an agency promulgates a general rule or regulation that is filling in the details of statutory policy and that rule possesses the force of law. The issuance of an administrative order is more specifically tailored to a particular dispute in which a private party is required, after an administrative hearing, to conform to the law by doing or refraining from doing certain things.

There is variation among liberal democracies in their respective administrative law structures. For example, administrative law in France and Sweden is administered by a system of highly developed separate administrative courts that are distinct from ordinary courts in that they focus solely on public law disputes. Such administrative courts are more readily seen and stronger in countries with a history of civil law legal systems than in nations with a common law legal heritage (such as the United States and Great Britain). The purpose of these courts is to closely oversee public agency actions. In the French system, all administrative decisions produced by executive officials are subject to review by the Conseil d’État (Council of State), which sits at the apex of this system of administrative lower tribunals and intermediate courts of appeals. This particular court possesses much authority, independence, and prestige in the French legal system, and there is no comparable analogue to it in either the United States or Great Britain. Through its myriad decisions over the past two hundred years, the Conseil d’État has developed abiding legal precedents and principles concerning administrative power as exercised by the state. Thus, the leading administrative court in France constitutes a viable check to executive power, as well as lending legitimacy to various state actions. The judiciary’s use of administrative law is a leading method by which bureaucrats can be held accountable and to ensure executive fidelity to the law and correct procedures.

Some controversy and ongoing questions revolve around agency activities and how administrative law has developed to deal with those concerns. A variety of nations have opted for an external watchdog of an ombudsman to help assist in scrutinizing potentially problematic actions taken by government administrators. The ombudsman is an appointed public official who has the authority to investigate accusations of corrupt, incompetent, or incorrect actions taken by bureaucrats. This oversight mechanism started in Scandinavia and has filtered out over time to other European democracies and to the European Union, but its full potential is yet to be seen.

In the United States, an important worry is that the scope of agency action has worked to undermine the separation-of-powers system—legislative, executive, and judicial—as laid out in the Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that it is constitutionally permissible for executive agencies to exert authority that one normally associates with the legislative and judicial branches as long as judicial review of agency decisions is available to the affected parties and agencies operate only in areas that are clearly under their regulatory jurisdiction and expertise. Thus, this merging of governmental powers is constitutionally satisfactory as long as appropriate safeguards are kept in place.

Of special concern in these separation-of-powers considerations is the delegation doctrine. The delegation doctrine prohibits excessive delegation of discretionary powers by the Congress to federal agencies. The major question here is where exactly is the threshold when the U.S. Congress has delegated too much authority to an agency so that the agency is actually legislating the law, and not the Congress itself? From the 1940s to the present, the delegation doctrine has become essentially dormant in the federal courts and does not pose much of a constraint on Congress, with Congress giving healthy amounts of leeway to agencies in the implementation of federal law. As long as some type of intelligible principle is articulated in the relevant law to generally guide the implementing agency, the courts will uphold the agency action as meeting the requirements of the delegation doctrine and is thus constitutional.

Bibliography:

• Breyer, Stephen G., Adrian Vermeul, Richard B. Stewart, and Cass Sunstein. Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy: Problems, Texts, and Cases. New York: Aspen, 2006.
• Cass, Ronald A., Colin S. Driver, and Jack M. Beermann. Administrative Law: Cases and Materials. New York: Aspen, 2006.
• Funk, William F., and Richard H. Seamon. Administrative Law: Examples and Explanations, 3rd ed. New York: Aspen, 2009.
• Hall, Daniel E., and John Feldmeier. Administrative Law: Bureaucracy and Democracy, 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2008.
• Strauss, Peter L. Administrative Justice in the United States, 2nd ed. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2002.
• Warren, Kenneth F. Administrative Law in the Political System, 4th ed. Boulder, Colo.:Westview, 2004.
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In our Constitutional and Administrative Law Q&A book, we cover a wide range of topics that might appear in your exams, including essays and problems. As a student of Constitutional and Administrative Law, you may expect to see at least one of the topics discussed in the Q&A included here included in a future coursework or assignment question.

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