The Parliamentary Ombudsman: A Study in the Control of Administrative Action (Routledge Revivals)

In the late 1950s the term ‘Ombudsman’ was familiar only to specialists in the government of Scandinavian countries.Since then, the institution has spread throughout both the Western and developing worlds.With the appointment of the Parliamentary Commission for Administration in 1967, the United Kingdom adopted its own special version of the Ombudsman. Originally published in 1975, the role of this new office, and the manner in which it operates, is the central theme of this major study by Roy Gregory and Peter Hutchesson for the Royal Institute of Public Administration. The book was the first comprehensive account of the scope and workings of the Parliamentary Commissioner scheme.It would undoubtedly have been of great value not only to students of British government, but to all those who may have had occasion to make use of the Commissioner’s services at the time. The authors discuss the problem of maintaining adequate control over administrative action, examine the origins and adopt