The Nuffield Foundation has announced the award a grant of £325,000 to fund the UK’s first Administrative Justice Institute (UKAJI), a collaborative project designed to kick start the expansion of empirical research into administrative justice issues. UKAJI will be led by Professor Maurice Sunkin, with a core team of 10 others, and will operate for an initial … Continue reading
On 14 May 2014 the UK Constitutional Law Association will hold its first joint seminar with ALBA ( the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association). The topic addresses questions of procedural fairness in relation to the right to an oral hearing. The speakers are Hugh Southey QC and Professor David Feldman, with Mr Justice Silber as Chair. The … Continue reading
The House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee published its latest report about complaints on 14 April 2014. It concludes 82. The exposure of the failure of Mid Staffordshire Hospital, the Mid Staffordshire NHS Hospital Trust and of NHS leadership to hear both the complaints of patients and their families, and the complaints of their … Continue reading
[This was first published on the UKCLA blog on 25 October 2013] Triggered by the government’s consultation paper Judicial Review Proposals for Reforms published in December 2012, much has been written about the volume of judicial review challenges in the Administrative Court. As is well known, the government has largely justified its programme of reforms to judicial … Continue reading
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