Administration and the law: tinkering or transformation?

Until the 1980s there was no pressing need for students of administration to pay much attention to the legal system in general and the concept of judicial review in particular. Schwartz and Wade (1972:322) noted that, ‘Many leading lawyers of the era of the Second World War could say little about administrative law except that they had a distant recollection of having been taught at the University that there was no such thing.’