There was a very good turnout for our workshops on research at the Ombudsman Association annual conference in Loughborough last week. The opening plenary session of the conference suggested that research would be a recurring theme throughout the conference. Dr David Halpern of the Behavioural Insights Team discussed the way organisations can influence behaviour through … Continue reading
ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE IN WALES AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 10th September 2015, 9:30am-5:30pm – Reichel Hall, Bangor University In association with the Welsh Government and the UK Administrative Justice Institute, Bangor Law School is delighted to announce an upcoming conference on the theme of administrative justice. Administrative justice is of special importance to Wales with its significant … Continue reading
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
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
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