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Adler, Michael; Stendahl, Sara --- "Administrative Law, Agencies and Redress Mechanisms in the United Kingdom and Sweden" [2012] ELECD 770; in Clark, S. David (ed), "Comparative Law and Society" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Comparative Law and Society

Editor(s): Clark, S. David

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849803618

Section: Chapter 13

Section Title: Administrative Law, Agencies and Redress Mechanisms in the United Kingdom and Sweden

Author(s): Adler, Michael; Stendahl, Sara

Number of pages: 36

Extract:

13 Administrative law, agencies and redress
mechanisms in the United Kingdom and Sweden
Michael Adler and Sara Stendahl* 1




1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 The Scope of Comparison

In this chapter, we compare administrative law, administrative agencies and redress mech-
anisms in the United Kingdom and Sweden from an administrative justice perspective.
Before elaborating on the notion of administrative justice, we first provide a rationale for
comparing the UK and Sweden.
John Bell's contribution on `Comparative Administrative Law' in the Oxford Handbook
of Comparative Law (2006: 1260) notes that `much work by comparative lawyers involves
the study of one other administrative law system, which is then explained in terms familiar
to the author's own' and that `comparisons of more than one system are often less suc-
cessful'. It is not for us to say how successful our comparison is but, in comparing aspects
of administrative law in two countries, we would appear to be avoiding the pitfalls asso-
ciated with more wide-ranging comparisons. Bell points out that the grouping of public
law systems into `legal families' or legal traditions differs from the grouping of private law
systems, and that variations between countries are greater in respect of public law than in
respect of private law. That said, he refers to the long tradition of comparative research
within and between countries in three legal traditions. First, the common law tradition
includes the United Kingdom, much of the British Commonwealth and the United States
of America. Second, the French tradition ...