Australasia and Pacific Ombudsman Institutions Mandates, Competences and Good Practice.

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Law.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Human rights.; Intellectual property > Law and legislation.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law.; Human Rights.; Regional/Spatial Science.

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 a...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1 Comparative Analysis of the Ombudsman Institutions: Introduction
• Legal Framework
• Mandate
• Powers
• Awareness and Outreach
• Good Practice Examples
• Part 2: Reports on Different Jurisdictions: Australia Commonwealth Ombudsman
• Australia Ombudsman New South Wales
• Australia Northern Territory Ombudsman
• Australia Queensland Ombudsman
• Australia South Australian Ombudsman
• Australia Tasmanian Ombudsman
• Australia Victorian Ombudsman
• Australia Western Australian Ombudsman
• Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China) Ombudsman
• Cook Islands Ombudsman
• New Zealand Ombudsmen
• Papua New Guinea Ombudsman Commission
• Samoa Ombudsman
• Taiwan – Control Yuan
• Tonga Commissioner for Public Relations
• Vanuatu Ombudsman
• Annex.