Rangga Hotman Hasibuan's Key Ideas from Essential Constitutional and Administrative Law
by Andrew Beale

In The Rule of Law in Britain Today (1989) the Constitutional Reform Centre noted that:

"Dicey held it to be essential to the rule of law that public authorities should be subject to the same law as the ordinary citizen, administered in the ordinary courts, and many of the European systems of law (based on the Roman law tradition) failed the test in giving the State a special position in law"

The concept of the separation of powers also seeks to attain this purpose by segregating both the functions and personnel of the three branches of government: executive, legislature and judiciary.

in 1978 the House of Commons Select Committee on Procedure concluded that:

"...the balance of advantage between Parliament and government in the day to day working of the constitution is now weighted in favour of the government to a degree which arouses widespread anxiety and is inimical to the proper working of our parliamentary democracy"

David Pannick QC noted in The Times, 1995:

"judges are well aware of the constitutional reality that Parliament exercises very little control over the content of primary legislation, let alone delegated legislation or administrative decisions. Nor can Parliament realistically be expected to do so, given the growth in the business of government and in the number of discretionary powers conferred. Constitutional fictions are an unpersuasive basis for seeking to encourage judges to restrain themselves when they are asked to provide remedies for the victims of injustice or unfairness."