Full Record

Issues and problems in Australian administrative law -- The rise (and decline?) of administrative law -- Freedom of information and open government -- Understanding decisions: reasons, discovery and evidence -- Investigating administrative activity: Auditors-General, corruption and whistleblowers -- Investigating administrative conduct: the ombudsman -- Administrative review on the merits -- Delegated legislation -- The duty to act within powers -- Exercise of discretionary power -- Duty to act for proper purposes and according to relevant considerations -- Duties in relation to findings of fact -- Reasonableness and other limitations to administrative decision-making -- Right to procedural fairness: general principles -- The right to be "heard" -- The rule against bias -- Limits to fairness -- The effect of errors on the validity of decisions -- The availability of judicial review -- Judicial remedies -- Discretion -- Standing to seek judicial review