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Parliamentary Affairs 2009 62(4):600-617; doi:10.1093/pa/gsp024
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This article appears in the following Parliamentary Affairs issue: CHARTER 88 AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM MOVEMENT: TWENTY YEARS ON [View the issue table of contents]

Putting the Ombudsman into Constitutional Context1

Richard Kirkham

School of Law
Bartolome House, Winter Street
Sheffield S3 7ND
UK

Brian Thompson

Liverpool Law School
University of Liverpool
Chatham Street
Liverpool L69 7ZS
UK
wbt{at}liverpool.ac.uk

Trevor Buck

De Montfort Law School
De Montfort University
Elfed Thomas Building, The Gateway
Leicester LE1 9BH
UK
tbuck{at}dmu.ac.uk

Correspondence: R.M.Kirkham{at}sheffield.ac.uk

This article argues that in debates on constitutional reform more attention should be paid to the potential contained in the office of the ombudsman. To illustrate the point it demonstrates that four of the constitutional demands made by the Charter 88 movement are already partially fulfilled by the ombudsman. The argument is also made that both within and outside the UK there have been a number of developments in ombudsman practice in recent years that suggest that more is already being made of the ombudsman institution than previously understood.


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