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M Doyle

M Doyle has written 281 posts for Essex CAJI

Report from the annual Socio-Legal Studies Association conference, and a call for a new description of administrative justice

Margaret Doyle, Senior Research Officer, UKAJI At the SLSA conference at Warwick University at the beginning of April we saw some grim statistics presented in the Administrative Justice stream. Robert Thomas from Manchester University exposed some of the myths about numbers of judicial reviews in immigration and asylum cases. ‘Success’ rates at final hearing disguise … Continue reading

JUSTICE sets out radical re-envisioning of courts and tribunals

JUSTICE has published a new report, Delivering Justice in an Age of Austerity, which sets out a vision of systemic change to the way civil courts and tribunals resolve disputes. The report is the work of a Working Party set up last year and chaired by The Rt. Hon Sir Stanley Burnton. The report recommends … Continue reading

Call for papers – international conferences on empirical legal research

Tenth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies October 30-31, 2015, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO, USA Paper Submission Deadline: 26 June 2015

 The Tenth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS 2015) is sponsored by the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) and hosted by Washington University School of Law, the Center … Continue reading

Administrative justice in Scotland – a UKAJI stakeholder workshop

A workshop examining administrative justice in Scotland will be held at the University of Glasgow on 20 May 2015, 1-4.30pm. The workshop is free and will be of interest to policy makers, the judiciary, researchers, consumer advisers, regulators and ombudsmen and complaint handlers. The programme can be found here: Workshop Invitation and Programme – UKAJI 20 … Continue reading

What’s new in administrative justice, April 2015

Parliament The Public Accounts Select Committee has published a report on Inspection in Home Affairs and Justice. The Report warns that current arrangements for appointing Chief Inspectors and for setting their budgets potentially pose a significant threat to their independence. Another PASC Report, Investigating clinical incidents in the NHS, has recommended urgent and fundamental reform … Continue reading