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What is Administrative Law About? Power, Rights, and Judicial Culture in Australia

BY JOE MCINTYRE Administrative Law has always exposed difficult constitutional fault lines. As the role of the State expanded, courts improvised responses to affect a broadly effective system of legal accountability for executive action. 22 more words via What is Administrative Law About? Power, Rights, and Judicial Culture in Australia — AUSPUBLAW Dr Joe McIntyre is … Continue reading

Courts challenge ombud’s approach to determining service failure

UKAJI is publishing a series of blog posts about the Court of Appeal decision in Miller v Health Service Commissioner [2018] EWCA Civ 144 (February 2018), which identified a number of failures in the investigation by the Health Service Ombudsman for England. The first post, by Richard Kirkham, considered what the judgment tells us about judicial approaches to … Continue reading

Still at the Crossroads: The ombud as ‘just an alternative’ or a ‘just alternative’ (again) in the light of Miller v Health Service Commissioner

UKAJI is publishing a series of blog posts about the Court of Appeal decision in Miller v Health Service Commissioner [2018] EWCA Civ 144 (February 2018), which identified a number of failures in the investigation by the Health Service Ombudsman for England. The first post, by Richard Kirkham, considered what the judgment tells us about judicial approaches to … Continue reading

Safeguarding procedural fairness or imposing excessive legalism?

  UKAJI is publishing a series of blog posts about the Court of Appeal decision in Miller v Health Service Commissioner [2018] EWCA Civ 144 (February 2018), which identified a number of failures in the investigation by the Health Service Ombudsman for England. This first post, by Richard Kirkham, considers what the judgment tells us about judicial approaches … Continue reading

What’s new in administrative justice, December 2017

Parliament Note: Some Parliamentary items are included under subject-specific headings below. Committee stage debate on the EU (Withdrawal) Bill continues in the House of Commons. The Government has suffered its first defeat on the Bill on an amendment tabled by Dominic Grieve, which provides that ministers’ powers to implement the Brexit withdrawal agreement by order … Continue reading