Particularities of the British administrative system

The Anglo-Saxon system of law is different from the French one by the fact that its composing rules belong to the common law and the administrative litigations are judged by the common law Courts. As part of the executive power in the U.K., the ministries and government departments are divided into major and minor departments for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The leader of the government is the Prime-minister, the political leader of the party who won the elections for the House of Commons. In U.K., the structure of the local public administration consists of counties, districts and parishes, who were established by Parliament’s acts in order to develop some services for which they are better equipped than the central authorities. The British system of public administration seems vulnerable because during the last two decades the powers of the local authorities and subsidiarities were reduced. Still, U.K. seems to struggle between the traditional pattern based on customary law and the attempt of borrowing forms of local public administration from the Continent, often with the result of an ineffectual hybrid