Jurisdiction: An Essay in Constitutional, Administrative, and Procedural Law
313 Pages Posted: 23 Oct 2014 Last revised: 4 Apr 2016
Date Written: December 1, 1954
Abstract
This is Robin Cooke’s Doctoral Thesis, written at the University of Cambridge. The thesis examines the concept of “jurisdiction”, which Mr. Cooke describes as the subject in which we probably have more reported decisions in the whole field of case law. The concept of jurisdiction, he maintains, has played a “greater part in the evolution of our constitutional and administrative law than has the classification of powers”. The purpose of the thesis is “try to analyse the concept of jurisdiction and to ascertain the extent to which it is helpful in solving problems arising in the practice and exposition” of constitutional and administrative law.
Keywords: jurisdiction, administrative law; mistrial, collateral challenges to jurisdiction, tribunals of limited jurisdiction; judgments procured by fraud, procedural law
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