Public Administration and the Courts.

The article presents a speech addressed during the annual meeting of the RIPA on October 1978. According to the speaker, the traditional relationship between the government and the courts in Great Britain is that the court does not interfere with the government. The court sometimes scrutinize the propriety of the executive action but would never question the validity of a statute. More recently, the courts have developed the declaratory remedy to be able to declare in appropriate cases the act of the minister or of the government department as illegal or contrary to law.