Judicial Review and Compliance with Administrative Law [Hardcover]

Simon Halliday (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2004

How effective is judicial review in securing compliance with administrative law? This book presents an empirically-based study of the influence of judicial review on government agencies. In doing so, it explores judicial review from a regulatory perspective and uses the insights of the regulation literature to reflect on the capacity of judicial review to modify government behavior. On the basis of extensive research with heavily litigated government agencies, the book develops a framework for analyzing and researching the regulatory capacity of judicial review. Combining empirical and legal analysis, it describes the conditions which must exist to maximize judicial review's capacity to secure compliance with administrative law.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The approach adopted is socio-legal and the work combines empirical and legal analysis to good effect. It succeeds in laying the ground for further research in this important area of law and public policy.Journal of the Commonwealth Lawyers' Association2005an extremely important contributionIts significance..is in the provocative questions it poses and the framework for future research that it establishesan extremely good book that should definitely be on the book shelf of anyone who is interested in the study of law and administration. It is precisely this sort of theoretically grounded empirical work that the study of law and administration needs.Byron SheldrickSocial and Legal Studies, Vol 15, No 2.June 06...no one in the UK has done more than Simon Halliday to move this area of work alongThe insights he provides will be of tremendous value to researchers[It constitutes a very significant contribution to our understandingMaurice SunkinLegal Studies, Vol 26, No 1March 06Intellectually insightful and focussedRidwanul HoqueThe Cambridge Law JournalMarch 2006This is an outstanding piece of scholarship. It deserves to be read by anyone interested in administrative decision-making and in law as an instrument of policy. It raises and starts to answer important questions about organisational performance and analyses some of the major barriers that law must overcome to have an effective influence on the goods and services that citizens receive from the state.Edward C. Page, London School of EconomicsPublic LawJanuary 2005those with an academic interest in what influence judicial review decisions may have will find Halliday's analytic approach an interesting way of looking at a complex and increasingly important subject.Rona EpsteinThe Legal ExecutiveFebruary 2006[This book, will serve as an excellent resource for empirical researchers seeking to isolate the influence of judicial review on administrative decision-making, administrative law teachers wanting to enrich student comprehension with case-studies, and for all scholars interested in understanding the impact of judicial review on government action. Furthermore, Halliday's book will be a tantalizing read for administrative lawyers because it presents, the form of compelling narratives, 'smoking-gun evidence' of non-compliance. He contributes significantly to the field by providing a sound analytical framework for further inquiry.His methodological approach breathes life into the often abstracted and decontextualized world of administrative decision-making, and his revealing interviews with HPU decision-makers make his work accessible to a broad range of readers....Halliday's ability to weave narrative, social theory and legal doctrine creates a thought provoking text.Eli Paul MazurThe Law and Politics Book ReviewDecember 2004

About the Author

Simon Halliday is the Nicholas de B Katzenbach Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies,Oxford University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 188 pages
• Publisher: Hart Publishing (May 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841132659
• ISBN-13: 978-1841132655
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,310,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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