Abstract:Chapter 10 of this book was devoted to complaints. Adopting a ‘bottom-up’ perspective, we considered the machinery for complaints-handling, its place in the administrative-justice landscape and variou...Chapter 10 of this book was devoted to complaints. Adopting a ‘bottom-up’ perspective, we considered the machinery for complaints-handling, its place in the administrative-justice landscape and various possible components of ‘proportionate dispute resolution’. In Chapter 11 we turned our attention to tribunals, firmly established by the Franks Committee as ‘machinery for adjudication’. We looked at their emergence as a two-tier system of administrative adjudication in terms of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. As the JUSTICE–All Souls Committee perceived, inquiries ‘though often referred to in the same breath as tribunals … have quite a different origin, purpose and status and their development has been somewhat different’. Wade too had noted their ambiguous character: they were, he thought, a hybrid legal-and-administrative process, and ‘for the very reason that they have been made to look as much as possible like a judicial proceeding, people grumble at the way in which they fall short of it’. This ambiguity is a central theme of this chapter.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-08-20
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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