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Publications and speeches about international issues

Amankwah, H A and Omar, K I, ‘Buttressing constitutional protection of fundamental rights in developing nations: the Ombudsman Commission of Papua New Guinea: a new hybrid’ (1990) 18 Melanesian Law Journal 74

Barrie, GN, ‘The Ombudsman: Governor of the Government’, (1970) 87 South African Law Journal 224

Bartlett, R, ‘The Ombudsman in taxation: a tripartite perspective’, (1988) British Tax Review 164

Bowie, H, ‘The Ombudsman and immigration’ (1982) 12 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 277

Caiden, GE, (ed) International Handbook of the Ombudsman, 1983, Greenwood Press

Castle, LJ, ‘The Ombudsman's experience with local government’ (1982) 12 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 225

Gellhorn, W, When Americans Complain: Government Grievance Procedures Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 1966

Giddings, P, ‘The Health Service Ombudsman after twenty-five years’, [1999] Public Law 200

Gregory, R, & Giddings, P, (eds) Righting Wrongs: The Ombudsman in Six Continents (2000) IOS Press

Haig, P, ‘Conference of Australasian and Pacific Ombudsman’ [1981] New Zealand Law Journal 431

Hatchard, J, ‘The Institution of the Ombudsman in Africa with Special Reference to Zimbabwe’, (1986) 35 ICLQ 255

Heede, K, European Ombudsman: Redress and Control at Union Level, 2000, Kluwer Law International

Hill, LB, The Model Ombudsman: Institutionalizing New Zealand’s Democratic Experiment, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976

Hill, LB, ‘The Ombudsman Revisited: Thirty Years of Hawaiian Experience’, (2002) 62(1), Public Administration Review, 24

‘International Ombudsman Conference’ (1989) 21 Admin Review 85

Keith, KJ, Development of the Role of the Ombudsman with Reference to the Pacific, APOR, 2005

Keith, K J, ‘Judicial control of the Ombudsman’ (1982) 12 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 299

Laking, G, ‘The Ombudsman in transition’, (1987) 17 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 307

Laking, G, ‘The Ombudsman and the legal profession’ (1982) 12 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 217

Larmour, P and Barcham, M, National Integrity Systems in Small Pacific Island States, ANU, 2005

Lo, C, & Wickins, R, ‘Towards and Accountable and Quality Public Administration in Hong Kong: Redressing Administrative Grievances Through the Ombudsman’, (2002) International Journal of Public Administration 256

Maskill, J, ‘The Ombudsman and health’ (1982) 12 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 285

Matheson, MD, ‘The Ombudsman and prison complaints’ (1982) 12 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 265

Napier, W G F, ‘The Ombudsman and social welfare’, (1982) 12 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 249

Powles, G, ‘New Zealand Ombudsman–the early days’, (1982) 12 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 207


Rawlings, G, State, Society and Governance in Melanaesia: Regulating Responsibly for Oversight Agencies in the Pacific, ANU, 2006

Reif, L, (ed) The International Ombudsman Anthology: Selected writings from the International Ombudsman Institute, Kluwer Law International, Hague, 1999

Rowat, D, The Ombudsman Plan: The Worldwide Spread of an Idea, 1973 Toronto: McLelland & Stewart

Judge Satyanand, ‘Growth of the Ombudsman Concept’ Journal of South Pacific Law Vol. 3 1999

Satyanand, A, ‘The role of the Ombudsman’ [1996] New Zealand Law Journal 206

Seneviratne, M, ‘Ombudsmen: Public Services and Administrative Justice’, Butterworths, UK 2002

Stacey, F, The British Ombudsman, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971

Tao Pai-Chuan, ‘The Chinese Ombudsman and the Control System’, (1966-67) 41 St John’s Law Review 362

Tollemache, N. ‘Taking the ombudsman concept into the private sector: notes on the Banking Ombudsman Scheme in New Zealand’ (1996) 26 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 233

Uggia, F, ‘The ombudsman in Latin America’, (2004) 36(3) Journal of Latin American Studies 423

Von Tigerstrom, B, ‘The Role of the Ombudsman in Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ in The International Ombudsman Yearbook (1998) International Ombudsman Institute and LC Reif (eds)

The World Bank – Law and Justice Links – including UNDP Guides to Handling Complaints and Guide to Investigations (2006)

Yardley, D C M, ‘Local ombudsman in England: recent trends and developments’, (1983) Public Law 522

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