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M Doyle

M Doyle has written 281 posts for Essex CAJI

Homelessness internal reviews – The long view

By David Cowan, University of Bristol Law School*, and Caroline Hunter and Simon Halliday, University of York Law School This piece was originally published on the University of Bristol Law School Blog on 13 April 2016 and is re-posted here with permission of the authors. Applicants for homelessness assistance who are aggrieved by a local authority’s … Continue reading

Current research register – May 2016 update!

In October 2015 UKAJI published the first version of our current research register, as part of our work to develop a network of researchers working in administrative justice. Today we launch an updated version of the UKAJI Current Research Register, alongside a number of new profiles of projects listed in the register.  An organic resource The register is … Continue reading

Allowed appeals and initial decision-making

Robert Thomas, School of Law, University of Manchester  This blog post investigates the number of appeals allowed by tribunals and the reasons for this.   How many appeals are allowed by tribunals? And why do tribunals allow appeals? To start with, here is some data. Figure 1 shows the proportion of allowed appeals concerning social … Continue reading

Immigration Judicial Reviews in the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber): an analysis of statistical data

By Robert Thomas, School of Law, University of Manchester This blog post analyses statistical data concerning immigration judicial reviews since their transfer to the UTIAC. It finds that the number and proportion of claims certified as Totally Without Merit has increased. It also finds that the length of time claims take to get to a … Continue reading

Report from our seminar on benefit sanctions and inequalities

‘A benefit sanction – ie withdrawal of benefit or a reduction in the amount of benefit paid for a certain period – may be imposed if a claimant is deemed not to have complied with a condition for receiving the benefit in question. Benefit sanctions are not a new feature of the social security system, … Continue reading