Full Record

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