Administrative Decision-Making Training Course: Legal Foundations and Judicial Review
1Summary
Every administrative decision carries real legal weight — it can create rights or impose obligations simply because the administration acts in the public interest. But that power only holds up if the decision is properly formed, and if it can be told apart from other government acts such as legislative or judicial work. This course starts from that distinction, since telling these apart is exactly what determines whether a decision is open to judicial review.
From there, participants examine what actually constitutes a valid administrative decision — its pillars of jurisdiction, form, subject matter, cause and purpose — and how these hold up when the decision is challenged in court. The programme pairs this legal grounding with practical contract-drafting and legal-memo skills, so participants leave able both to issue sound administrative decisions and to document them correctly.
2Objectives and target group
Who Should Attend?
- Managers and directors of companies and institutions.
- Directors of legal departments and legal affairs, and legal-department staff in commercial firms.
- Law officers and legal-management professionals.
- Businessmen developing their legal skills.
- Law faculty students, graduates and trainee lawyers.
After completing the programme, participants will be able to:
- Build a full practical and academic grasp of the relevant branches of law.
- Draft contracts and administrative resolutions, including employment contracts, in a complete legal form.
- Determine contract specifications accurately throughout the procurement cycle, and understand their legal weight in the "invitation to tender" process.
- Understand how different specification types affect bidders, and the role of technical proposals in evaluating tenders.
- Apply the right international or institutional standards when needed, and gain practical experience dealing with judicial bodies and their respective jurisdictions.
- Conclude contracts and draft legal memoranda with confidence.
3Course Content
Module 1: Understanding Legal Provisions
- The concept of legal management, and legal provisions: definition, interpretation and importance.
Module 2: Principles of Legal Interpretation and Advice
- The origins of legal interpretation.
- Stages and mechanisms for preparing legal advice, and an intensive study of the legal sciences.
Module 3: Writing Memoranda That Hold Up
- Applications and examples in writing legal memoranda, and skills and methods of legal drafting.
- Formulating documents, memos and statements of various types.
Module 4: Negotiating and Closing Contracts
- Contract preparation and conclusion skills.
- Negotiation and dispute-resolution skills, and persuasion techniques.
Module 5: Specifications, Tenders and Legal Risk
- Writing and analysing contract specifications and procurement processes.
- The legal importance of specifications and their relation to the "invitation to tender" process, doubtful and deficient specifications, different types of specifications and related risks, and the impact of language on contractual terms and legal conditions.