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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
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Avid readers of the legal press may have spotted the eye-catching statistic that in 2014 a meagre 1% of claims for judicial review were successful. The figure is derived from the statement in the MOJ’s overview of the Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly (October – December 2014) published on…
Parliament The Armed Forces (Service Complaints and Financial Assistance) Bill has completed Report Stage and Third Reading in the House of Commons. The Bill establishes the office of Service Complaints Ombudsman, replacing the Service Complaints Commissioner. The Local Government (Review of Decisions) Bill had its Second Reading in the House of Lords on 27 February … Continue reading
Helen Mountfield QC, Matrix Chambers This post first appeared on the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog on 26 February 2015 at http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/recognising-travellers-needs-the-courts-begin-to-move/ Are courts beginning to recognize the duty of equality law to respect and protect the rights of minorities to be different? A recent important High Court decision in Moore & Coates v Secretary … Continue reading
By Sarah Nason, Ysgol y Gyfraith/ School of Law, Prifysgol Bangor University On 13th February 2015, UKAJI held its first workshop designed to bring together members from the policy, practice and research communities. The seminar, hosted by Bangor University Law School and supported by the Welsh Government, was also the first stage in research aiming … Continue reading
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