Administrative Justice in the 21st Century

Michael Harris is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol.Martin Partington is Professor of Law at the University of Bristol and a Law Commissioner.

The idea of administrative justice is central to the British system of public law, more embracing than judicial review, or even administrative law itself. It embraces all the mechanisms designed to achieve a proper balance between the exercise of public and quasi-public power and those affected by the exercise of that power.This book contains revised versions of the papers given at the International Conference on Administrative Justice held in Bristol in 1997. Forty years after the publication of the Franks Committee report on Tribunals and Inquiries, the conference reflected on developments since then and sought to provoke debate about how the future might unfold.Participants included policy makers, tribunal chairs and ombudsmen, other decision-takers as well as academics - a formidable combination of expertise in the operation of the administrative justice system.Among the themes addressed in the papers are the following: the effect of the changing nature of the state on current institutions; human rights and administrative justice; the relationship between decision taking, reviews of decisions, and the adjudication of appeals; and the overview of administrative justice, taking into account lessons from abroad. The new millenium provides an opportunity for the reappraisal of the British system of administrative justice; this volume presents an indispenable repository of the ideas needed to understand how that system should develop over the coming years.Contributors: Michael Adler, Margaret Allars, Dame Elizabeth Anson, Lord Archer of Sandwell, Michael Barnes, Julia Black, Christa Christensen, David Clark, Gwynn Davis, Godfrey Cole, Suzanne Day, Julian Farrand, Tamara Goriely, Michael Harris (Ed), Neville Harris, Tony Holland, Terence Ison, Christine Lally, Douglas Lewis, Rosemary Lyster, Aileen McHarg, Walter Merricks, Linda Mulcahy, Stephen Oliver, Alan Page, Martin Partington (Ed), David Pearl, Jane Pearson, Paulyn Marrinan Quinn, John Raine, Andrew Rein, Alan Robertson, Roy Sainsbury, John Scampion, Chris Shepley, Caroline Sheppard, Patricia Thomas, Brian Thompson, Nick Wikeley, Tom Williams, Jane Worthington, Richard Young.

This book contains versions of the papers given at the International Conference on Administrative Justice in 1997. Policy makers, tribunal chairs and academics reflect on developments since the Franks Committee, and on the future of the system.

INTRODUCTION1. Objectives of Competition Policy in General2. Competition Policy Objectives in the Context of a Multilateral Competition Code3. Objectives of Competition Policy in the Context of Future reforms of the E.U.'s Competition Policy4. ConclusionsBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE PARTICIPANTSCOMPETITION POLICY OBJECTIVES1. Panel Discussion2. Working PapersI Frédéric JennyII Gabriel CastañedaIII Allan FelsIV Anna FornalczykV Hideaki KobayashiVI Francine MatteVII Damien NevenVIII Alexander SchaubIX Dieter WolfCOMPETITION POLICY OBJECTIVES IN THE CONTEXT OF A MULTILATERAL COMPETITION CODE3. Panel Discussion4. Working PapersI Eleanor FoxII Roderick AbbottIII Jacques BourgeoisIV Ulrich ImmengaV R. Shyam KhemaniVI Joel KleinVII Mitsuo MatsushitaVIII Petros MavroidisIX François SoutyCOMPETITION LAW IMPLEMENTATION AT PRESENT5. Panel Discussion6. Working PapersI Barry HawkII Ian ForresterIII Calvin GoldmanIV Herbert HovenkampV Martin HoweVI Abott (Tad) LipskyFUTURE COMPETITION LAW7. Panel Discussion8. Future Competition LawI Richard WhishII Jonathan FaullIII Christian KirchnerIV Valentine KorahV Mario SiragusaVI James VenitVII Michel WaelbroeckVIII Alberto Heimler & Piero Fattori