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How important a contribution is made by the Ombudsmen to the task of ensuring that government decision-making is conducted in
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How important a contribution is made by the Ombudsmen to the task of ensuring that government decision-making is conducted in defensible ways and produces defensible results. Discuss The Parliamentary Commissioner for Adminstration (PCA) was set up under the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 as a result of the Crichel Down affair in 1954. It was thought that pre-existing judicial and parliamentary remedies did not provide adequate redress for members of the public who suffered as a result of maladministration in central government. No action was being taken towards defective administrative workings, either because it fell outside the jurisdiction of the courts or because MPs did not have sufficient powers to investigate it satisfactorily. The Ombudsman stands as an independent body, empowered to investigate a wide range of complaints than could be investigated by a court. Where as a court can intervene in judicial review proceedings only where a decision is ultra vires, the...
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