Legitimate Expectations on Both Sides of the Channel or When Miss Coughlan Visits Belgian Public Law

In English law, the case between Miss Coughlan and the North and East Devon Health Authority is central to the doctrine of legitimate expectations raised by the administration. Thequestion arises as to how the Belgian courts would have decided, or at least could havedecided, such a case. In order to answer this question, one examines the extent to which, inBelgian law, the legitimate expectations raised by the administration require it to honourthem. It then asks how the administrative and ordinary courts could have been seized of theCoughlan case and how they could have decided it. From this... Mehr ...