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Contract plays a vitally important role in the delivery of public services today. Both central and local governments make extensive use of private firms to provide facilities, goods, and services. Government contracts vary considerably from the relatively straightforward competitive procurement of office supplies, to complex, long-term arrangements in which the contractor researches and develops a new piece of military equipment, or builds and provides a fully-serviced hospital over a thirty-year period.

English law's traditional approach to government contracts has been to regard them as ordinary private law arrangements. As a result, they have understandably been neglected by public lawyers in both teaching and research. This book argues that, on closer inspection, constitutional and administrative law (in the form of statute, common law, and government guidance) have been playing an increasingly important role in the regulation of certain key aspects of government contracting. The book analyzes these public law elements in detail and suggests ways in which they might appropriately be developed more fully, in tandem with the underlying private law regime. The book's aim is to raise the profile of government contracts as a proper subject for public law scholarship, whilst at the same time contributing to important contemporary debates on issues such as the public vs. private divide, the scope of the judicial review jurisdiction, and the reach of the Human Rights Act 1998.

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Title The Public Law of Government Contracts
Author A. C. Davies
Binding Hardback
Edition First Edition
Pages 384
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher OUP Oxford
Publication date 2008-11-15
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780199287390 / 0199287392
Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.88 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.24 cm)
Themes
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Law Studies
Category Legal Reference / Law Profession
Library of Congress subjects Public contracts - Great Britain
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008279416
Dewey Decimal Code 346.410

About the author

Anne Davies is Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College, Oxford, and Reader in Public Law at the University of Oxford. Her teaching and research interests are in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Employment Law. She has published extensively in both fields, including Accountability: A Public Law Analysis of Government by Contract (OUP, 2001), and Perspectives on Labour Law (CUP, 2004).

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