Lesson 1: Constitutional and Administrative Law for Postgraduates

Cases

A and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department UKHL 56 Alexkor Ltd v Richtersveld Community 2004 (5) SA 460 (CC); ZACC 18 Anisminic Ltd v Foreign Compensation Commission 2 AC 147 (HL)

Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation 1 KB 223 (CA)

Attorney-General of Abia State v Attorney-General of the Federation (2006) 16 NWLR (Pt 1005) 265 (SC Nigeria)

Attorney-General of the Federation v Attorney-General of Abia State & 35 Ors (SC/CV/ 343/2024, 11 July 2024) (SC Nigeria)

Attorney-General of the Federation v Attorney-General of Lagos State (2013) 16 NWLR (Pt 1380) 249 (SC Nigeria)

Attorney-General of Lagos State v Attorney-General of the Federation (2004) 18 NWLR (Pt 904) 1 (SC Nigeria)

Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service AC 374 (HL)

Council of Governors & 6 Others v Senate eKLR (HC Kenya)

Dimes v Grand Junction Canal Proprietors (1852) 3 HL Cas 759 Economic Freedom Fighters v Speaker of the National Assembly 2016 (3) SA 580 (CC)

Entick v Carrington (1765) 19 St Tr 1029 Government of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom 2001 (1) SA 46 (CC)

Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers AC 435 (HL)

Kesavananda Bharati v State of Kerala AIR 1973 SC 1461 Liyanage v The Queen 1 AC 259 (PC)

Maneka Gandhi v Union of India AIR 1978 SC 597 Marbury v Madison 5 US (1 Cranch) 137 (1803)

Nafiu Rabiu v The State (1980) 8-11 SC 130 (SC Nigeria)

NM and Others v Smith and Others 2007 (5) SA 250 (CC); ZACC 6 Porter v Magill 2 AC 357 (HL)

R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, ex p Pinochet Ugarte (No 2) 1 AC 119 (HL)

R v North and East Devon Health Authority, ex p Coughlan QB 213 (CA)

R v Oakes 1 SCR 103 (SCC)

R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union UKSC 5 Ransome-Kuti v Attorney-General of the Federation (1985) 2 NWLR (Pt 6) 211 (SC Nigeria)

Ridge v Baldwin AC 40 (HL)

S v Makwanyane 1995 (3) SA 391 (CC); ZACC 3 Sam Sumana v Attorney-General and Minister of Justice and Victor Bockarie Foh (SC 4/2015, SC Sierra Leone, 9 September 2015)

SERAP v Federal Republic of Nigeria ECW/CCJ/JUD/07/10 (30 November 2010); SERAP v Nigeria (No 2) ECW/CCJ/JUD/18/12 (14 December 2012)

SP Gupta v Union of India AIR 1982 SC 149 Tuffuor v Attorney-General GLR 637 (Ghana)

International and Regional Instruments

African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (1981)

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951); OAU Refugee Convention (1969)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UNGA Res 217 A(III) (1948)

UN Doc E/CN.4/2006/58 (Decaux Principles on the administration of justice through military tribunals)

Secondary Sources

Abdulai ES, Freedom of Information Law and Good Governance: The Curse of Corruption in Sierra Leone (2021)

Abdulai ES, Electoral Politics, Laws and Ethnicity in Africa (2023)

Abdulai ES, The Diverse Facets of Corruption in Sierra Leone (2024)

Abdulai ES, Deconstructing Corruption in Africa (2025)

Barak A, Proportionality: Constitutional Rights and their Limitations (CUP 2012)

Barnett H, Constitutional and Administrative Law (Routledge, latest edn)

Bickel A, The Least Dangerous Branch (Bobbs-Merrill 1962)

Bingham T, The Rule of Law (Allen Lane 2010)

Craig P, Administrative Law (Sweet and Maxwell, latest edn)

Dicey AV, Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (10th edn, Macmillan 1959)

Ely JH, Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review (Harvard UP 1980)

Fombad C (ed), Separation of Powers in African Constitutionalism (OUP 2016); Constitutional Adjudication in Africa (OUP 2017)

Hart HLA, The Concept of Law (3rd edn, OUP 2012)

Jacobsohn G, Constitutional Identity (Harvard UP 2010)

Liebenberg S, Socio-Economic Rights: Adjudication under a Transformative Constitution (Juta 2010)

Manby B, Citizenship in Africa: The Law of Belonging (Hart 2018)

Roznai Y, Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments (OUP 2017)

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone, Witness to Truth (2004)

Constitutional Review Committee (Sierra Leone), Report (2017); Government White Paper (2017)

Wade HWR and Forsyth CF, Administrative Law (11th edn, OUP 2014)

Waldron J, "The Core of the Case Against Judicial Review" (2006) 115 Yale LJ 1346 Zweigert K and Kötz H, An Introduction to Comparative Law (3rd edn, OUP 1998)

Constitution of Sierra Leone 1991 (Act No 6 of 1991).

Constitution of Sierra Leone 1991 (Act No 6 of 1991), chs V (The Executive), VI (The Legislature), VII (The Judiciary) and III (The Recognition and Protection of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms of the Individual).

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted 10 December 1948) UNGA Res 217 A(III). For the natural law tradition see John Finnis, Natural Law and Natural Rights (2nd edn, OUP 2011).

John Austin, The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832); Hans Kelsen, Pure Theory of Law (2nd edn 1960); HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (3rd edn, OUP 2012).

For the constitutional history see the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone, Witness to Truth: Report of the Sierra Leone TRC (2004), and the Constitutional Review Committee, Report (2017).

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Amnesty International, "Sierra Leone: Government rejection of important constitutional review recommendations a missed opportunity to strengthen human rights protection" (December 2017). A further review process was announced under the Bio administration; verify its current status before citing.

Human Rights Act 1998 (UK), ss 3 and 4.

Constitution of Sierra Leone 1991, s 171(15).