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M Doyle

M Doyle has written 281 posts for Essex CAJI

Benefit Sanctions and the Rule of Law

by Michael Adler In this paper, Michael Adler, Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, highlights the enormous growth in the severity, the scope and the incidence of benefit sanctions in the UK since the turn of the century, and assesses the compatibility of the current sanctions regime with the … Continue reading

What’s new in administrative justice, October 2015

Parliament The Immigration Bill is due to have its second reading in the Commons on 13 October. Among other things, the Bill would extend changes to appeal rights introduced by the Immigration Act 2014, in order to enable the Home Secretary to remove from the UK migrants who are appealing against a refusal of a … Continue reading

A Democratic Alternative?

By Nick O’Brien In a recent article in the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law (‘The ombudsman as democratic alternative: reading the EU Consumer ADR Directive in the light of the PASC reports’, 37 (2015) 274-282) I argued that ombuds – or at least those who still aspire to some sort of ‘public’ function … Continue reading

Launching the current research register

Last week UKAJI announced that we would shortly publish our current research register, as part of our work to develop a network of researchers working in administrative justice. Today we launch the initial version of the Current Research Register, alongside a number of profiles of projects listed in the register. The register The register is an … Continue reading

Trends in the tribunals world

Robert Thomas, School of Law, University of Manchester This blog contribution is drawn from a paper delivered at a conference organised by Bangor Law School on 10th September 2015 entitled “Administrative Justice in Wales and Comparative Perspectives”. The purpose of the paper was to provide a broad overview of current and future developments across tribunals, … Continue reading