Administrative law in action : immigration administration / Robert Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration law--Great Britain.

Emigration and immigration law.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Hart Publishing, 2022

Summary:

"This book investigates and analyses how administrative law works in practice through a detailed case-study and evaluation of one of the UK's largest and most important administrative agencies, the immigration department. In doing so, the book broadens the conversation of administrative law beyond the courts to include how administrative agencies themselves make, apply, and enforce the law. Blending theoretical and empirical administrative-legal analysis, the book demonstrates why we need to pay closer attention to what government agencies actually do, how they do it, how they are organised, and held to account. Taking a contextual approach, the book provides a detailed analysis of how the immigration department performs its core functions of making policy and law, taking mass casework decisions, and enforcing immigration law. The book considers major recent episodes of immigration administration including the development of the hostile environment policy and the treatment of the Windrush generation. By examining a diverse range of material, the book presents a model of administrative law based upon the organisational competence and capacity of administration and its institutional design. Alongside diagnosing the immigration department's failings, the book advances positive proposals for its reform."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Law and administration

2. The Development and Operation of the Immigration Agency

3. Administrative Policy-making: A Case Study of the Hostile Environment Policy

4. Administrative Rule-Making

5. Casework decision-making

6. Immigration Enforcement

7. Legal Challenges and Means of Redress Against Immigration Decisions

8. Substantive Judicial Review 9 Bureaucratic Oppression

10. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781509953134

1509953132

9781509953127

1509953124

1-5099-5314-0

OCLC:

1285371213