Contents

Preface v

List of Contributors ix

1. Introduction:Accountability in the Contemporary

Constitution 1

Nicholas Bamforth and Peter Leyland

PARTI

2. The Spirits of the Constitution 27

JWF Allison

3.

Mark Tushnet

PART II

4. Accountability toLaw 77

T R S Allan

5. Adjudication as Accountability:ADeliberative Approach 105

Sandra Fredman

6. The Instrumental Value of Legal Accountability 124

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PART III

7. Accountability, Human Rights Adjudication and the

Human Rights Act 1998 155

Alison L Young

8. Accountability and Judicial Review in the UK and EU:Central

Precepts 180

Pau l Craig

9. Parliamentary Accountability and the Judicial System 200

Andrew Le Sueur

PART IV

10. Ombudsmen, Tribunals, Inquiries:Re-fashioning Accountability Beyond the Courts 233

Mark Elliott

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11. Accountability of and to the Legislature 259

Nicholas Bamforth

12. Accountability and the Foundations of British Democracy—the Public

Interest and Public Service Principles 289

Dawn Oliver

13. Multi-Layered Constitutional Accountability and the Re-financing

of Territorial Governance in theUK 309

Peter Leyland

PART V

14. Beyond New Public Management:Problems of Accountability in the

Modern Administrative State 333

A C L Davies

15. Calling Regulators to Account:Challenges, Capacities and Prospects 354 Julia Black

16. Legal Accountability and Social Justice 389

Colm O’Cinneide

Index 411