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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784277703321

Autore

Cowan David (David S.)

Titolo

The appeal of internal review : law, administrative justice, and the (non-) emergence of disputes / David Cowan and Simon Halliday with Caroline Hunter, Paul Maginn, and Lisa Naylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2003

ISBN

1-4725-5948-7

1-280-80123-9

9786610801237

1-84731-238-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

342.066

Soggetti

Public welfare administration - Law and legislation - England

Administrative remedies - England

Homeless persons - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-220)

Nota di contenuto

1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 HOMELESSNESS LAW AND INTERNAL REVIEW IN CONTEXT -- 3 SOUTHFIELD COUNCIL -- 4 BRISFORD COUNCIL -- 5 UNDERSTANDING THE FAILURE TO PURSUE INTERNAL REVIEW -- 6 UNDERSTANDING THE PURSUIT OF INTERNAL REVIEW -- 7 LAWYERS AND OTHER COPING STRATEGIES -- 8 CONCLUSION

Sommario/riassunto

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