Administrative Justice in Context

Michael Adler

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781841139289
• eBook ISBN: 9781847315755
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Administrative Law
• Index: Law

This book comprises a definitive collection of papers on administrative justice, written by a set of very distinguished contributors. It is divided into five parts, each of which contains articles on a particular aspect of administrative justice. The first part deals with the impact of 'contextual changes' on administrative justice and considers the implications of changes in governance and public administration, management and service delivery, information technology, audit and accounting, and human rights for administrative justice. The second part deals with conceptual issues and describes a number of competing approaches to the administrative justice. The third part deals with the application of administrative justice principles to private law disputes while the fourth part deals with the distinctive characteristics of administrative justice in three other jurisdictions. The final part deals with current developments in administrative justice and the book concludes with a discussion of legislative and policy developments in the UK.
The general approach of the book is socio-legal and interdisciplinary. The chapters adopt a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including those derived from political science, public policy, social policy, accounting and information technology as well as from law. Although most of the contributors are academics, some are practitioners. For these reasons, the book should be of interest to lawyers, particularly those with interests in administrative law, and to social scientists, particularly those with interests in public administration, public policy and public management.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Prelims
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Part 1 Contextual Changes and Their Implications for Administrative Decision Making
• 1 The Changing Context of Governance: Implications for Administration and Justice
• 2 Delivering Choice and Administering Justice: Contested Logics of Public Services
• 3 Developments in E-government
• 4 The Audit Society: Helping to Develop or Undermine Trust in Government?
• 5 Changes in Human Rights
• Part 2 Conceptual Issues and Analytic Approaches
• 6 Understanding and Analysing Administrative Justice
• 7 The Organisation of Administrative Justice Systems: The Role of Political Mistrust
• 8 A Cultural Analysis of Administrative Justice
• 9 Through the Eyes of Bureaucrats: How Front-line Officials Understand Administrative Justice
• Part 3 Public–Private Issues
• 10 Towards the Horizontal Effect of Administrative Justice Principles
• 11 Where and How Should the Private Sector Ombudsman Be Seen in the Administrative Justice Landscape?
• Part 4 Comparative Perspectives on Administrative Justice
• 12 Administrative Justice in Australia
• 13 Administrative Justice from a Continental European Perspective
• 14 Administrative Justice in a Scandinavian Legal Context: From a Liberal and a Social State to a Market State or a Milieu State
• Part 5 Current Developments in Administrative Justice in the UK
• 15 Grievances, Remedies and the State—Revisited and Re-appraised
• 16 A Holistic Approach to Administrative Justice?
• 17 Joining Up Citizen Redress in UK Central Government
• 18 Current Developments in the UK—Complaints Procedures and Ombudsmen
• 19 Current Developments in the UK: System Building—From Tribunals to Administrative Justice
• Index