Cross on Local Government Law

Author: Professor S H Bailey
Publisher: Sweet & Maxwell U.K.
ISBN: 9780421429802
Published In: Subscription-type (Contents updated periodically)
Format: Loose-leaf
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Cross on Local Government Law is the definitive narrative text on local government law and has an established reputation among local government officers and lawyers. It provides a full and detailed account of local authorities' powers and duties in their many fields of operation.
The subject is exhaustively covered in four sections: 1. Law of Local Government Administration; 2. Finance; 3. Services; 4. Appendices.
* The leading work in its field
* Includes detailed lists and tables providing valuable guidance on the function and powers of local government
* Regularly updated

Forthcoming releases in 2012 will cover a range of recent Acts, including the Education Act 2011, the Localism Act 2011 and the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, and further delegated legislation. The Localism Act 2011 makes major changes, including:

Giving councils a general power of competence
Allowing councils to choose to return to the committee system of governance and allowing for referendums for elected mayors in certain authorities
Abolishing the Standards Board regime and the model code of conduct, and introducing local accountability and a criminal offence of deliberate
Failure to declare a personal interest in a matter
Giving residents the power to instigate local referendums on any local issue and the power to veto excessive council tax increases
Allowing councils more discretion over business rate relief
Providing new powers to help save local facilities and services threatened with closure, and giving voluntary and community groups the right to challenge local authorities over their services
Changes to planning and housing law
Changes to local government in London, including provision for mayoral development corporations
Bills relevant to local government before Parliament include the Health and Social Care Bill and the Local Government Finance Bill. Releases will also cover the steady stream of case law that arises across the many specialist areas within local government law.

The legal framework of local authorities
Acquisition of powers
Local authority areas and status
The administrative machinery of local authorities
Acquisition, appropriation, disposal and development of land
By-laws
Best value and competition
Tort, contracts and criminal liability
Central control of local authorities
Judicial control of local authorities and legal proceedings by and against local authorities
Local elections
Local authority finance
The grant system
Non-domestic rates
Council tax
Highways
Housing
Public health
Education
Health & social services
Planning & urban regeneration
Recreational services
Police, fire and civil defence services
Food, drugs and poisons, shops, consumer protection
Water
Local land charges
Burials and cremation
Miscellaneous powers duties and services
Allocation of principal functions
Principal powers and duties of parish and community councils