ABSTRACT
The methods and organs of administrative justice that have been developed in France over the last two centuries have proved enormously influential in other civil law countries, to the extent that the presence of a separate administrative jurisdiction alongside the ordinary courts of civil and criminal justice can now credibly be described as a feature of modern civilian systems generally. The process of administrative justice is again redolent of the civilian inheritance of the lands wherein it has taken root. The process can be divided into four phases, namely the commencement or introductory phase, the instruction phase, the judgement or decision-making phase, and finally the execution. Meanwhile, in France itself, where the modern concept of administrative justice first made headway, the last half century has seen a development which appears to connect the modern jurisprudence of the administrative courts with the origins of civil law in ancient Rome.
