TY - BOOK ID - 8211640 TI - Australasia and Pacific Ombudsman Institutions : Mandates, Competences and Good Practice. AU - Frahm, Michael AU - International Ombudsman Institute PY - 2013 SN - 364233895X 3642338968 1299197728 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Human rights -- Study and teaching. KW - Human rights. KW - Law. KW - Ombudspersons KW - Government - Non-U.S. KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Government - Asia KW - Law, General & Comparative KW - Citizens' defenders (Ombudspersons) KW - Ombudsman KW - Ombudspeople KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Private international law. KW - Conflict of laws. KW - International law. KW - Comparative law. KW - Intellectual property KW - Regional economics. KW - Spatial economics. KW - Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law. KW - International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law. KW - Human Rights. KW - Regional/Spatial Science. KW - Law and legislation. KW - Mediators (Persons) KW - Public officers KW - Mass media KW - Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law . KW - IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property. KW - Economics KW - Regional planning KW - Regionalism KW - Space in economics KW - Mass media. KW - Spatial economics KW - Regional economics KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Human rights KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation KW - Mass communication KW - Media, Mass KW - Media, The KW - Communication KW - Choice of law KW - Conflict of laws KW - Intermunicipal law KW - International law, Private KW - International private law KW - Private international law KW - Law KW - Legal polycentricity KW - Law and legislation KW - Civil law UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8211640 AB - Commissioned by the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI), the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM) in Vienna conducted a comparative analytical study on Ombudsman Institutions in the Australasia and Pacific region between January 2011 and April 2012. In Part 1, this book provides an analytical comparison of the public sector Ombudsman Institutions in Australia (the Commonwealth Ombudsman and the state/territory Ombudsmen of all Australian states as well as of the Northern Territory and the ACT), the Cook Islands, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Taiwan, Tonga and Vanuatu. In addition to a comparative analysis showing the partial heterogeneity of the Institutions, a comprehensive overview of common features, and explorations of the specifics and peculiarities of the Institutions, Part 2 presents separate reports on the 16 different jurisdictions featuring their main functions as follows: - Legal basis, legal status and organisation, - Mandate, object of control and standard of control, - Powers, including legal quality and impact of the outcomes of investigative procedures, - Relationship to the administration, the judiciary and the legislator, and - Special characteristics. Part 2 is based on information provided by the Institutions themselves in questionnaires sent out at the outset of the study, an analysis of the respective establishing acts and other relevant laws, and on relevant scientific publications and the Institutions’ Annual Reports. The reports also refer to relevant legal provisions and include websites addresses for ease of reference. ER -