The Appeal of Internal Review - Law, Administrative Justice and the (non-) Emergence of Disputes

Why do most welfare applicants fail to challenge adverse decisions despite a continuing sense of need? The book addresses this severely under-researched and under-theorised question. Using English homelessness law as their case study,the authors explore why homeless applicants did -- but more often did not -- challenge adverse decisions by seeking internal administrative review. They draw out from their data a list of the barriers to the take up of grievance rights. Further, by combining extensive interview data from aggrieved homeless applicants with ethnographic data about bureaucratic decision-making, they are able to situate these barriers within the dynamics of the citizen-bureaucracy relationship. Additionally, they point to other contexts which inform applicants'' decisions about whether to request an internal review. Drawing on a diverse literature -- risk, trust, audit, legal consciousness, and complaints -- the authors lay the foundations for our understanding of the (non-)emergence of administrative disputes.>

About the author

David Cowan is Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Bristol, UK.Simon Halliday is the Nicholas de B Katzenbach Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University.

Product details

• Authors: David Cowan, David (University of Bristol Cowan, David (University of Bristol Law School Cowan, Simon Halliday, Caroline Hunter
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2003
• EAN: 9781841133836
• ISBN: 978-1-84113-383-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, Wales, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence & general issues, Social Law, Jurisprudence and general issues, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Social law and Medical law, Wales / Cymru