The new administrative landscape- implications of managerialism for administrative law

dc.contributor.advisorCorder, Hugh
dc.contributor.authorDe Villiers, David Pieter
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-27T07:53:13Z
dc.date.available2026-02-27T07:53:13Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.date.updated2026-02-27T07:50:26Z
dc.description.abstractIn the introductory section to Baxter's Administrative Law, the author in an attempt to delineate the field of administrative law stated the following: 'A factor retarding the development of administrative law as a significant discipline has been a lack of agreement as to what "administrative law" is. Most writers commence with the statement that "administrative law is the law relating to the administration". This is, of course, a safe but useless tautology. Disagreement begins the moment one attempts further amplification. ' 1 This disagreement has not precluded academic writers or the courts from developing this broad1 if difficult to define, body of law. Yet. there remains a high level of uncertainty about the exact scope of administrative law. One might think that asking the question; 'What is considered to be an administrative act or an administrative action?' would remedy this problem to a degree. Again Baxter is opposite: 'The courts have attempted to marshal the wide diversity of administrative acts by grouping them into a set of simple categories .... The labels "legislative", "judicial" and "administrative" have been adopted, along with variants such as "semi-" or "quasi-judicial", "purely administrative" and "ministerial". Once an administrative act has been labelled, the legal rules and principles applicable to it are supposedly clear. But the scheme of classification which has been adopted is in truth simplistic and misleading.
dc.identifier.apacitationDe Villiers, D. P. (1999). <i>The new administrative landscape- implications of managerialism for administrative law</i>. (). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Centre for Law and Society. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42922en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationDe Villiers, David Pieter. <i>"The new administrative landscape- implications of managerialism for administrative law."</i> ., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Centre for Law and Society, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42922en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationDe Villiers, D.P. 1999. The new administrative landscape- implications of managerialism for administrative law. . University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Centre for Law and Society. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42922en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - De Villiers, David Pieter AB - In the introductory section to Baxter's Administrative Law, the author in an attempt to delineate the field of administrative law stated the following: 'A factor retarding the development of administrative law as a significant discipline has been a lack of agreement as to what "administrative law" is. Most writers commence with the statement that "administrative law is the law relating to the administration". This is, of course, a safe but useless tautology. Disagreement begins the moment one attempts further amplification. ' 1 This disagreement has not precluded academic writers or the courts from developing this broad1 if difficult to define, body of law. Yet. there remains a high level of uncertainty about the exact scope of administrative law. One might think that asking the question; 'What is considered to be an administrative act or an administrative action?' would remedy this problem to a degree. Again Baxter is opposite: 'The courts have attempted to marshal the wide diversity of administrative acts by grouping them into a set of simple categories .... The labels "legislative", "judicial" and "administrative" have been adopted, along with variants such as "semi-" or "quasi-judicial", "purely administrative" and "ministerial". Once an administrative act has been labelled, the legal rules and principles applicable to it are supposedly clear. But the scheme of classification which has been adopted is in truth simplistic and misleading. DA - 1999 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Administrative law KW - Baxter LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1999 T1 - The new administrative landscape- implications of managerialism for administrative law TI - The new administrative landscape- implications of managerialism for administrative law UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42922 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/42922
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationDe Villiers DP. The new administrative landscape- implications of managerialism for administrative law. []. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Centre for Law and Society, 1999 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42922en_ZA
dc.language.isoen
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Law and Society
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Law
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectAdministrative law
dc.subjectBaxter
dc.titleThe new administrative landscape- implications of managerialism for administrative law
dc.typeThesis / Dissertation
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationlevelLLM
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