Scots administrative law

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Administration

* Justice and Communities Directorate of the Scottish Government
* Cabinet Secretary for Justice
* Judicial Appointments Board
* Judicial Complaints Reviewer
* Parole Board for Scotland
* Legal Aid Board
* Courts & Tribunals Service
* College of Justice
* Office of the Public Guardian
* Scottish Sentencing Council
* Law Commission
* Criminal Cases Review Commission
* Prison Service

Civil courts

* Court of Session
* Lord President
* Lord Justice Clerk
* Lord of Session
* Office of the Accountant of Court
* Acts of Sederunt
* Sheriff Court
* Sheriff Appeal Court
* Sheriff Principal
* Sheriff Personal Injury Court
* Sheriff

Criminal courts

* High Court of Justiciary
* Lord Justice-General
* Lord Justice Clerk
* Lords Commissioner of Justiciary
* Acts of Adjournal
* Sheriff courts
* Sheriff Appeal Court
* Sheriff Principal
* Sheriffs
* Justice of the peace courts
* Justices of the peace

Special courts

* Court of the Lord Lyon
* Lord Lyon King of Arms
* Children's Reporter Administration
* Children's Hearings
* Land Court
* Lands Tribunal
* Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal

Criminal prosecution

* Lord Advocate
* Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
* Advocate Depute
* Procurator fiscal
* Fiscal fine
* Precognition

Legal profession

* Judiciary
* Faculty of Advocates
* Advocate
* Law Society
* Solicitor-Advocate
* Solicitor
* Association of Commercial Attorneys
* Scottish Legal Complaints Commission

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Administrative law

General principles

* Administrative court
* Delegated legislation
* Exhaustion of remedies
* Justiciability
* Judicial interpretation
* Ministerial act
* Ouster clause
* Prerogative writ
* Certiorari
* Habeas corpus
* Mandamus
* Prohibition
* Quo warranto
* Rulemaking
* Ultra vires

Grounds for judicial review

* Fettering of discretion
* Legitimate expectation
* Nondelegation doctrine
* Procedural justice
* Natural justice
* Due process
* Abuse
* Fundamental justice
* Speedy trial
* Proportionality
* Unreasonableness
* Wednesbury
* Patent unreasonableness

Administrative law in
common law jurisdictions

* Australia
* Canada
* Singapore
* South Africa
* United Kingdom
* Scotland
* United States

Administrative law in
civil law jurisdictions

* China
* Mongolia
* Ukraine

Related topics

* Constitutional law

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Scots administrative law governs the rules of administrative law in Scotland, the body of case law, statutes, secondary legislation and articles which provide the framework of procedures for judicial control over government agencies and private bodies.[1]

## See also

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* Bannatyne v Overtoun
* Burmah Oil Co Ltd v Lord Advocate
* Judicial review in Scotland
* MacCormick v Lord Advocate
* West v Secretary of State for Scotland

## References

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1. ^ Blair, Scott (1999). Scots administrative law: cases and materials. W. Green/Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN 978-0-414-01296-7.

## Further reading

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* A source book and history of administrative law in Scotland, by various authors, edited by M.R. McLarty, assisted by G. Campbell H. Paton, London, W. Hodge, 1956

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* Scots and English contract law
* Scots and English land law
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