Professional Exemptions Required for Professional Purposes Module description This module aims to provide students with a critical understanding of selected areas of administrative law. Particularly since the 19th century and up until the late 20th century the state in Britain became more and more involved in social and economic matters, such as housing, education and health as well as the running of nationalised industries.
Administrative law is a dynamic subject in which legal rules can change quickly.
Stephen Sedley, a High Court judge, has called it ''the most dynamic of all contemporary fields of law''. One reason for this is of course the close link between administrative law and politics, which will be explored in this module. For example, the government's policy on genetically modified organisms has become a subject matter for administrative law. The pressure group ''Friends of the Earth'' has challenged in a judicial review action the Home Secretary''s decision to continue the outdoor trial planting of GMO crops. Administrative law is also dynamic because it can no longer be just understood in a national context but is influenced by legal and political developments on a local and international level.