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

ISBN-10
1472559487
ISBN-13
9781472559487
Category
Administrative remedies
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2003
Author
David Cowan

Description

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 deci.

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