Public Appointment — Law Update

Admission to a professional training course does not confer an inherent right to public appointment.
Conditional service bonds do not constitute guarantees of government employment.
Absence of a specific disclaimer does not imply an automatic right to appointment.
Two-pronged constitutional test for substantive legitimate expectation.
Defeat of legitimate expectation by policy change and expanded candidate pool.
Primacy of merit-based open competition over past absorption conventions.
Promulgation of statutory service rules supersedes administrative practices.
Jurisdictional shifts to statutory recruiting commissions mandate formal selection.
Scope and limits of judicial orders as past-practice precedents.
Absence of similarly situated comparators defeats claims of discrimination under Article 14.