ABSTRACT
The work of the administration is subject to both financial and administrative supervision. Departmental supervision of the provincial branches of ministries is carried out by an inspectorate which constitutes a department of the ministry in Paris. With the vast extension in recent years of the scope of state intervention in the life of the ordinary citizen, and the consequent development of ministerial bodies with quasi-judicial powers, recognition of the real advantages possessed by the French system has become more general, and a number of European countries have created administrative courts, directly modelled on the French system. French legal theory insists that an accused person is not guilty until so proved. But the methods of establishing innocence or guilt are so different from those of Great Britain that they might at times appear to British observers to imply an assumption of guilt.
