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European public law, the achievement and the challenge/, Patrick J. Birkinshaw

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European public law

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Patrick J. Birkinshaw

European monographs, 88

the achievement and the challenge/

European integration has been most successful at a legal level and European influences have left an indelible mark on English and United Kingdom Public Law. These influences must be fully understood by students, academics and practitioners if they are to understand our public law and its future direction. To fail to appreciate the European context in which our domestic law is developing is to fail to comprehend our public law.0This completely revised book, which was first published in 2003, examines the debate surrounding the influence of European Union and European Convention law, as well as the influence of national laws on the public law of the United Kingdom in a thematic and analytical manner. The book examines what influence the common law has extended on other European legal systems. The book seeks to unravel the mutual influence brought about by closer legal integration within the European experience at supra-national, national and sub-national levels. This book will prove to be an invaluable guide to the ever developing European context of our domestic public law.0This new edition comes at a time of growing political disenchantment with European integration, at a time when the Union is growing in size and diversity and at a time when failure in consensus has led to non-Union measures for member states. Nonetheless, Europe has profoundly influenced our national legal development and that development must be understood.--, Provided by publisher

Setting the context for European public law --Law and government : a comparative tour -- The union and national systems and their contribution to European public law -- The main features of UK constitutional law and European integration -- 'An ever closer union ... in which decisions are taken ... as closely as possible to the citizen' : subsidiarity and devolution -- ' ... As openly as possible ... ' : transparency, openness and access to information -- National participation in union affairs : democracy, the UK Parliament, devolved parliaments and the EU -- Principles of review -- Citizenship and protection of human rights -- Public liability : European influence and domestic change -- The EU ombudsman, complaints and internal complaints and grievance procedures -- Competition, regulation, public service and the market -- Future considerations