NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
NOVEMBER 2018 EXAMINATION
COURSE CODE: MPA844 (formerly PUL844) CREDIT UNITS: 3
COURSE TITLE: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
INSTRUCTION: ANSWER QUESTION 1 (ONE) AND ANY OTHER 3 (THREE) QUESTIONS. QUESTION 1 (ONE) ATTRACTS 25 MARKS WHILE OTHERS ARE 15 MARKS EACH.
TIME ALLOWED: 2 ½ HOURS
- (a) What are fundamental human rights?
(b) Explain the nature or characteristics of these rights. 25 marks
- Write short notes on the following:
(i) Administrative law and constitutional law
(ii) Administrative law and good governance
(iii) Administrative law and rule of law 15 marks
- Professor Dickinson has to some extent summarized the reasons for the growth of
administrative law which were inherent in the legal system when he wrote-
“The particular advantages which a system of regulation by government thus has over one of regulation by law, differ in the different fields of regulation, but the different one in the matter of emphasis the respective advantages fall, with greater or less incidence, under one or more of the following heads. Discuss. 15 marks
- (a) What is welfare state?
(b) Describe the theories of a welfare state 15 marks
- Write short notes on the following:
(i) Mandamus
(ii) Certiorari
(iii) Injunction 15 marks
- Explain the meaning and limits of section 308 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria.
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