By Lucy Scott-Moncrieff Lucy Scott-Moncrieff CBE is Managing Director of Scott-Moncrieff and Associates Ltd and is a former President of the Law Society of England and Wales. She is also Chair of UKAJI and a member of the Bach Commission on Access to Justice, and she writes here about why it is important to respond to the Commission’s call … Continue reading
If so, we want to hear from you! UKAJI’s primary focus is to help develop research to understand how the systems of administrative justice operate, how users experience the systems, and the implications of reforms. One of our key goals is to ensure that research is used to enable the systems to work as they … Continue reading
On 18-20 April 2016, the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) at the University of Oxford will host the Fourth Annual Civil Justice Conference on Consumer ADR/ODR. The conference will address three timely topics and current research addressing these: How have Member States implemented the EU Consumer ADR Directive, and what landscape changes have occurred? Findings … Continue reading
by Steve Pudney In this post, Steve Pudney, a member of the UKAJI team and Director of Research at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, explores the questions for researchers in relation to the proposed transfer of responsibility for a key disability and social care benefit from central to local government. Britain currently … Continue reading
Queen Margaret University (QMU) is currently offering a fully funded PhD bursary [BUR16-02] on complainant characteristics. Details of the bursary competition for the Centre for Applied Social Sciences are available here. About the topic: The literature on consumer complaint behaviour (CCB) is dominated by attempts to explain why and in what circumstances consumers choose to … Continue reading