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Administrative Law
Democracy · Governance · Development · Justice. How the State is given power, how it uses it and how it is held to account, with India set beside the United Kingdom and the United States in every chapter.
By Niten Chandra, Law Secretary to the Government of India 2022–2024, and Shalini Chandra, Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India.
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Has public power been used lawfully, fairly and accountably?
Every day, in offices across India, someone decides whether a licence will be granted, a pension paid, a contract awarded, a building demolished or a website blocked. Most of these decisions are never questioned. Some are, and a few travel all the way to the Supreme Court.
In 2025 the Supreme Court awarded ₹10 lakh to each of six persons whose homes in Prayagraj had been demolished without due notice. In 2026 it awarded ₹11 lakh to a convict kept in prison for twenty-four days after a High Court had ordered his release on parole.
This book explains the law that governs every such decision, so that you can test it, challenge it, defend it or take it well in the first place.
What you get
India, the UK and the US, side by side
Each doctrine is traced in India, the United Kingdom and the United States, so that you see it at its source and in its Indian form.
A Summary for the Indian Practitioner
Every chapter closes with what to check in the record, which arguments are open and which remedy to choose: ready to read before a hearing.
Problems as they arise
Boxes headed On the Ground, A Practitioner’s Checklist and From the Bar work through problems as a lawyer, an official or a mediator meets them.
The subject on one page
The Schema of Administrative Law, printed in each volume, shows how the Parts fit together, from democratic purpose to accountability.
Choose your volume
Each volume carries the full Tables of Cases and Statutes, Bibliography and Index of the whole work.
Taking a first course? Start with Volume I.
In practice before courts and Tribunals? Writs, grounds and discretion are in Volume I; liability and remedies in Volume II.
Advising, adjudicating or teaching? Take both: ₹600 for the set at launch.
Volume I · 917 pages
Parts I–IV · Chapters 1–15
Foundations, delegated legislation, fair procedure and Tribunals, and judicial review.
- Introduction
- Rise of Administrative Law
- Sources of Administrative Law
- Constitutional Concepts
- Administrative v. Judicial Action
- Delegated Legislation
- Control of Delegated Legislation
- Natural Justice
- Administrative Adjudication and Tribunals
- Administrative Tribunals and Agencies
- Power of Investigation and Enquiry
- Legal Control of Administrative Action
- Writs: Judicial Control of Administrative Action
- Grounds for Judicial Control of Administrative Action through Writs
- Administrative Discretion and its Judicial Control
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Volume II · 779 pages
Parts V–VII · Chapters 16–28
Liability and remedies, powers and institutions of accountability, and the new horizons.
- Liability of Government
- Ordinary Remedies against the Administration
- Privileges and Immunities of the Government
- Licensing Power
- Sub-Delegation of Powers
- Exclusion of Judicial Review
- Ombudsman and the Central Vigilance Commission
- Public Corporations and Public Undertakings
- Horizons of Administrative Jurisdiction
- Public Interest Litigation
- Competition and Liberalisation
- Global Administrative Law
- Administrative Law and Technology
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Our vision: Making Knowledge Universal
Written from two sides of the same courtroom
Niten Chandra
Law Secretary, Government of India, 2022–2024
Thirty-five years in the Indian Administrative Service. Before he became Law Secretary he directed the Union’s litigation in the Supreme Court. He was Secretary to the High Level Committee on Simultaneous Elections and sat ex officio on the Law Commission of India.
Shalini Chandra
Advocate-on-Record, Supreme Court of India
Twenty years at the Bar and more than five hundred cases before the Supreme Court, High Courts and Tribunals, many for public bodies such as the DDA, MCD, NHAI and NCTE. A mediator trained and certified by the Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee of the Supreme Court.
Written for
- Law students and teachers
- Legal practitioners
- Members of all Tribunals, Authorities and Commissions of India
- Judges
- Senior civil servants
- CPSE management
- Citizens who seek justice
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