Ombudsman

Ombudsman

Spanish Translation of customers advocate/ombudsman

This is the legal translation of English to Spanish in relation to customers advocate/ombudsman and / or a definition of this topic: Defensor del Cliente (in Spanish, without translation of the dictionary entry).

Ombudsman in Constitutional Law

From the Comparative Constitutions Project: A public official or representative appointed to investigate citizens’ complaints against local agencies and programs that may be infringing on the rights of individuals.

Economic Freedom Fighters and Others v Speaker of the National Assembly and Others Cases (South Africa)

In relation to the economic freedom fighters and others v speaker of the national assembly and others cases (South Africa) and constitutional law, Francois Venter[1] made the following observation: The Public Protector is the South African equivalent of a national ombudsman. The office is, however, entrusted with extraordinarily wide powers to ‘take appropriate remedial action’ following an investigation into the conduct of any organ of state. Only court decisions are excluded from this jurisdiction. The power to direct the remedial action to be taken, even at the highest levels of authority, is a relatively new development in public advocacy and of particular interest in newly established constitutional democracies. (…)

Ombudsman

In relation to the ombudsman and constitutional law, W. John Hopkins[1] made the following observation: The essence of the ombudsman concept is not easy to define and has, at times, proved controversial. The term itself is an Anglicization of the Swedish term Ombudsmannen, meaning representative and although the word is gender neutral it is often not perceived as such. This perception has led to a number of private sector and internal ombudsmen in North America (particularly in tertiary education) to use the term ‘ombudsperson’ or ‘ombuds’. However, only one public ombudsman has adopted this style (that of British Columbia). For this reason, the more universally (…)

Ombudsman

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on ombudsman explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.

Ombudsman and Europe

There is an entry on ombudsman in the European legal encyclopedia.

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See Also

Further Reading

  • Entry “Ombudsman” in the work “A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union from Aachen to Zollverein”, by Rodney Leach (Profile Books; London)

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Further Reading

  • The entry “ombudsman” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press

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Notes and References

  1. Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, W. John Hopkins, “Ombudsman” (2018, Germany, United Kingdom)

See Also

  • Egalitarianism
  • Public interest
  • Corruption
  • Bribery
  • Ombudsman

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Notes and References

  1. Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, Francois Venter, “Economic Freedom Fighters and Others v Speaker of the National Assembly and Others Cases (South Africa)” (2018, Germany, United Kingdom)

See Also

  • Public interest
  • Ombudsman
  • Individual complaints procedures
  • Standing (locus standi)

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