Douglas and Jones's Administrative Law

Fully revised and updated to include the latest administrative law decisions, is a leading text on administrative law. Notable for its accessibility and background material, the authorship of the 8th edition has been expanded.

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.

Professor Roger Douglas is Professor in theSchool of Law, La Trobe University, Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria . Professor Head is the author of a number of legal works, including Administrative Law: Context and Critique (4th ed, The Federation Press, 2017) and Evgeny Pashukanis: A Critical Re-appraisal (Routledge-Cavendish, 2007). Yee-Fui Ng is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University. She researches in the areas of political integrity and the law, as well as the interaction between public law and politics.