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Administrative Justice Council Report Launch – Access to social welfare advice in a hospital setting: integration of services

Title: AJC Report Launch – Access to social welfare advice in a hospital setting: integration of services When: Wednesday 23rd June at 12:30-13:30 Where: Zoom Webinar The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant effect on the delivery of advice in England. The lack of face-to-face encounters and the remote delivery has highlighted the gaps in access to … Continue reading

Vaccination: Where the state meets the street

Vaccination: Where the state meets the street By Margaret Doyle (University of Essex) Since April last year, I’ve been supporting a woman who lives nearby, whom I’ll call Deirdre, delivering her newspapers, doing a bit of shopping, and liaising with the Council over housing matters on her behalf. I see her every day, but Deirdre … Continue reading

Delayed publication of coronavirus regulations and legal certainty – concerns and protections

Delayed publication of coronavirus regulations and legal certainty – concerns and protections     Lee Marsons (University of Essex)   As part of my compilation of resources on Covid-19 for UKAJI, I have been paying close attention to the publication of delegated legislation throughout this crisis. My main sources for this have been legislation.gov.uk, the … Continue reading

Public law values in times of lockdown: lessons from the Belgian case

Public law values in times of lockdown: lessons from the Belgian case   By Emmanuel Slautsky (Université libre de Bruxelles)   For the past weeks, national and international news has been dominated by a single topic: a large part of the world is affected by the pandemic of the infectious disease COVID-19, which is due … Continue reading

The Emperor has no clothes: A sober analysis of the Government response to Covid-19

The Emperor has no clothes: A sober analysis of the Government response to Covid-19   Opinion piece by Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley (Edge Hill University)   The Government has been criticised for doing ‘too little, too late’. Proposals to suspend duties in the Care Act, 2014, have led Disability Rights to complain that there is ‘a real … Continue reading