Christoph Grabenwarter
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- August 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198726418
- eISBN:
- 9780191890222
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198726418.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law, EU Law
This chapter pays attention to the Austrian Constitutional Court. This court-constitutional adjudication is characterized by a single institution, which in its competences and organizational ...
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This chapter pays attention to the Austrian Constitutional Court. This court-constitutional adjudication is characterized by a single institution, which in its competences and organizational structure is essentially unchanged compared to the Constitutional Court that was established in 1920. In order to understand today’s constitutional adjudication, the chapter discusses its historical beginnings immediately after the end of the monarchy. It also reveals that, in the European comparison, the Austrian Constitutional Court is of great importance in national constitutional practice. It owes this essentially to its power to review and strike down statutes. Until very recently, the Constitutional Court had no authority in disputes between different organs of the state. Only since the beginning of 2015 has it been responsible for ruling on disputes between organs of the Nationalrat and organs required to provide information.Less
This chapter pays attention to the Austrian Constitutional Court. This court-constitutional adjudication is characterized by a single institution, which in its competences and organizational structure is essentially unchanged compared to the Constitutional Court that was established in 1920. In order to understand today’s constitutional adjudication, the chapter discusses its historical beginnings immediately after the end of the monarchy. It also reveals that, in the European comparison, the Austrian Constitutional Court is of great importance in national constitutional practice. It owes this essentially to its power to review and strike down statutes. Until very recently, the Constitutional Court had no authority in disputes between different organs of the state. Only since the beginning of 2015 has it been responsible for ruling on disputes between organs of the Nationalrat and organs required to provide information.
Michael Quinlan
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263297
- eISBN:
- 9780191734519
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263297.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter examines the governmental process lessons that can be learned from the Hutton and Butler Reports. Though the Hutton and Butler inquiries were directly concerned with aspects of the Iraq ...
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This chapter examines the governmental process lessons that can be learned from the Hutton and Butler Reports. Though the Hutton and Butler inquiries were directly concerned with aspects of the Iraq saga, they had interest and significance reaching beyond the Iraq issue. This chapter explains that the inquiries prompted questions about the place of such investigations in British constitutional practice and that the unfettered access to information given to the investigators yielded an extraordinarily close and revealing portrait of how contemporary government at the centre of the British system has been functioning.Less
This chapter examines the governmental process lessons that can be learned from the Hutton and Butler Reports. Though the Hutton and Butler inquiries were directly concerned with aspects of the Iraq saga, they had interest and significance reaching beyond the Iraq issue. This chapter explains that the inquiries prompted questions about the place of such investigations in British constitutional practice and that the unfettered access to information given to the investigators yielded an extraordinarily close and revealing portrait of how contemporary government at the centre of the British system has been functioning.
C. Graham
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198765295
- eISBN:
- 9780191695292
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198765295.003.0018
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
Since 1993, there has been a rapidly growing public debate about the accountability of regulators of privatized companies, or public utilities. These debates have been mainly conducted with the aim ...
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Since 1993, there has been a rapidly growing public debate about the accountability of regulators of privatized companies, or public utilities. These debates have been mainly conducted with the aim of advancing policy positions in the hope that they might by adopted by government. This chapter tries to set these arguments within a wider context of debates about the control of discretion and the allocation of authority which reflect underlying arguments about the constitutional law and practice of Britain. It is argued that the difficulties with accountability of the regulators can only be solved, or put on a sounder footing, in the context of wide changes to constitutional structures and practices.Less
Since 1993, there has been a rapidly growing public debate about the accountability of regulators of privatized companies, or public utilities. These debates have been mainly conducted with the aim of advancing policy positions in the hope that they might by adopted by government. This chapter tries to set these arguments within a wider context of debates about the control of discretion and the allocation of authority which reflect underlying arguments about the constitutional law and practice of Britain. It is argued that the difficulties with accountability of the regulators can only be solved, or put on a sounder footing, in the context of wide changes to constitutional structures and practices.
