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Product Description This revised text takes full account of the many dramatic developments in English public law in recent years in areas such as devolution, human rights, and freedom of information. The text has three main aims: to provide a clear and concise account of the law concerning judicial control of public administrative power; to suggest political and theoretical perspectives that can help readers to understand the law better; and to explore the relationship between judicial and other forms of control such as ombudsmen and tribunals. An underlying theme of the analysis is that the role of courts in controlling public power is not that of neutral arbiter between 'citizen and state' but rather that of active participant in public decision-making processes. About the Author Peter Cane has been Professor of Law in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University since 1997 and 20 years before that he taught law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.