ABSTRACT
The Constitution ensures only a minimum level of legal protection. Many of the rules that give citizens procedural guarantees have been developed by either the courts or the Ombudsman. The influence of Danish administrative legal theory should also be considered. Danish administrative law was more or less ‘founded’ by Poul Andersen in 1924 when he published his doctoral thesis on the invalid administrative acts. Poul Andersen went on to write Danish administrative law in five editions from 1936 to 1965 and had great influence on the courts and the Ombudsman’s application of administrative law. The Danish Constitution therefore has relatively little importance when determining rights of citizens in relation to effective legal protection. The constitutional framework is just that: A frame that leaves it open to the legislator to decide what rights to legal protection citizens should have, besides the right to bring matters before the courts.
