* Douglas and Jones’s Administrative Law 9th ed

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Fully revised and updated to include the latest administrative law decisions, Douglas and Jones is a leading text on administrative law. Already notable for its accessibility and background material, the authorship of the 9th edition has been extended to a new generation of administrative law educators, who have helped trim and modernise the material. Professor Michael Head and Associate Professor Yee-Fui Ng are joined by two younger accomplished educators, Dr Jason Donnelly and Michael Morgan.

Key Features of the new edition:

• Updated to include every major High Court administrative law case since the 8th edition.
• Full outline and discussion of the proposed Administrative Review Tribunal.
• Discussion and details of the new National Anti-Corruption Commission.
• Important extracts and analysis of the High Court’s most significant recent decisions, including on procedural fairness, unreasonableness, judicial review and jurisdictional error.

table of content

Preface
Acknowledgments
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes

1. Issues and Problems in Australian Administrative Law
2. The Rise (and Decline?) of Administrative Law
3. Freedom of Information and Government Secrecy
4. Understanding Decisions: Reasons, Discovery and Evidence
5. Auditors-General, Corruption Commissions and Whistleblowers
6. Investigating Administrative Conduct: The Ombudsman
7. Administrative Review on the Merits
8. Delegated Legislation
9. The Duty to Act within Powers
10. The Exercise of Discretionary Power
11. The Duty to Act for Proper Purposes and According to Relevant Considerations
12. Duties in Relation to Findings of Fact
13. Reasonableness, Rationality and Other Limitations to Administrative Decision-Making
14. The Right to Procedural Fairness: General Principles
15. The Right to be “Heard”
16. The Rule Against Bias
17. Limits to Fairness
18. The Effect of Errors on the Validity of Decisions
19. The Availability of Judicial Review
20. Judicial Remedies
21. Discretion, Timing and Outcomes
22. Standing to Seek Judicial Review

Table of Sources
Index