French administrative law is known as “droit administratiff”, which means a body of rules which determine the organization, powers and duties of public administration and regulate the relation of the administration with the citizens of the country.

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True democracy states that the executive government would be accountable to the people. The various aspect of accountability and the role of administrative law in ensuring accountability in government administration have been discussed above.

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The red light approach advocates strong role for the courts to review administrative decisions. It considers that the function of law is to control the excesses of state power.

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There has never been any serious doubt that administrative law is primarily concerned with the control of power. With the increase in level of state involvement in many aspects of everyday life during the first 80 years of the twentieth century, the need for a coherent and effective body of rules to govern relations between individuals and the state became essential.

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In order to understand the nature of administrative law, you should start studying the subject by looking at the political and economic circumstances that led to its ‘creation,’ /or its ‘invention’/ as a distinct subject at a certain point in history.

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