REDRESS OF GRIEVANCE
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- Created on: 24-04-13 09:05
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- REDRESS OF GRIEVANCE
- Redress of grievance- Where citizens can get wrongs put right in the UK
- Members of parliament
- A citizen could seek the help of an MP to put pressure on the party that is dont wrong
- Private Member's Bill
- Unlikely
- Private Member's Bill
- Parliament passes laws
- 1994 Criminal Justice Bill restricted the right of people to protest and affect the right to silence if charged
- A citizen could seek the help of an MP to put pressure on the party that is dont wrong
- The courts
- Judges are limited in what they can do
- Cost of going to court is very expensive for most people
- Process of law can be very slow
- Tribunals
- Work in areas's such as industry, health and employment and meant to be quicker and cheaper
- More informal
- Legally qualified chairperson who is usually heped by two others
- No appeal fromthese tribunals in come cases
- Ombudsen
- The parliamentary Commissioner for Administration was set up in 1967 to receive and investigate complaints about the working of Parliament
- Since then other ombusmen have been set up to cover areas such as local authorities broadcasting and insurance
- Must go through a MP to talk to a ombudsen
- Only accept a small proportion of grievances
- An official appointed to investigate individuals' complaints against maladministration
- Judical Review
- Practice as been increasing in recent years
- No power to strike down a law
- July 2000 David Blunkett, Secretary of State for Education and EMployment was said tohave acted illegally in introducing peformance related-pay for teachers without properly consulting other bodies including parliament
- European Court of Human Rights
- It the legal system in the UK fails to produce a satisfactory result for a citizen it is possible to appeal European Court of Human Rights (since 1966
- The UK government was found to have violated the European Convention on Human Rights 50 times by 1997 (highest out of all in the EU)
- Labour government has now incorporated the European Convention into British law
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