Sarah Green, Causation in Negligence, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015, 175 pp, hb £50.00.
| Date | 01 January 2016 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12172 |
| Published date | 01 January 2016 |
| Author | William Lucy |
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by common principles, outlined in chapter two (‘Into the Office: Tenets,
Values and Objectives’), which also includes a taxonomy of procedural objects
and instruments (a so-called ‘administrator’s toolkit’). In particular, a theme
that emerges from these chapters, to which the authors draw attention, is the
‘three Cs of EU administration’: cooperation, coordination and communication
(323).
Together, the case study chapters form a fascinating portrait of an intr icate
web of process and procedure in EU administration. Harlow and Rawlings
emphasise the seemingly often underplayed, but crucial, role performed by
administrative procedure in the EU. Importantly, for the authors, the continuing
legitimacy of the EU, built upon weak foundations unlike those of a federal
state, is reliant on these procedures. In this regard, the authors characterise such
procedures as ‘the “super glue” that holds the sprawling, unwieldy structures
of the EU governance system in place’ (8).
Process and Procedure in EU Administration is said to derive from the authors’
postgraduate teaching at the London School of Economics and University
College London, and it bears testament to the quality of work done at these
two institutions. The book moves at a brisk pace and is packed with information
and insight. Process and Procedure in EU Administration is more than academic
scholarship of the highest quality. By virtue of the extensive research upon
which it is based, it provides a valuable resource for those with research interests
in specific subject matter covered by the book.
Because the functionalist perspective brings administrative practice to the
fore, Process and Procedure in EU Administration is accessible and will be of interest
to a wide range of academics – including both lawyers and political scientists –
and also policy-makers. In addition, the text will be an essential addition to the
reading lists of postgraduate students – again in both law and political science –
with an interest in EU governance, and, indeed, administrative law and public
administration.
Richard Craven∗
Sarah Green,Causation in Negligence, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015, 175 pp,
hb £50.00.
It seems the courts often have a great deal of trouble with the notion of
causation. Or, at least, that’s the view one would come to if, ignoring the judicial
decisions themselves, one concerned oneself only with academic commentary
about many of those decisions. Nor are matters improved when, speaking or
writing extra-judicially, judges themselves say they (or their brethren) have
got things wrong about causation. But how hard can causation be? It is, after
all, a notion we invoke almost every moment of our ordinary lives and it
certainly preoccupies many in their professional lives: medics, scientists and
∗Northumbria Law School.
188 C2016 The Authors. The Modern Law Review C2016 The Moder n LawReview Limited.
(2016) 79(1) MLR 183–206
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