Young people’s voice and the ‘chicken soup’ effect A new report explores the issue of young people’s participation in resolving disputes and complaints about their special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The report is the result of A Place at the Table, a knowledge exchange project carried out between November 2017 and March 2019 … Continue reading
APPG on Consumer Protection – Report from the Ombudsman Inquiry. By Gavin McBurnie The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Consumer Protection (the Group) published the report of its inquiry into ombuds on Wednesday 30 January 2019. The inquiry was the result of ‘long-standing concerns about the wide variation in the standards of complaints handling and … Continue reading
Report on the Administrative Justice Council Academic Panel’s Pop-up event, 12 February 2019 By Margaret Doyle Administrative justice met The Apprentice at a pop-up event organised by the Academic Panel of the Administrative Justice Council earlier this month. At what was badged a ‘speed-dating’ event for researchers, representatives of organisations interested in … Continue reading
Defining vulnerability in the enforcement of public debts Jennie Bunt This is a revised version of an original blog-post on the website of The Justice Gap Testing the boundaries of definitions When the accessibility of justice is threatened, considerable strain is placed on legal definitions. Such definitions carve out the boundaries of, for … Continue reading
Brexit and Administrative Justice: An Early Analysis (Part II – Emerging Trends) By Joe Tomlinson In a previous post in this series, I introduced a framework for understanding trends in law and administration during the Brexit process. That framework had three parts: internal organisation issues; external coordination issues; and substantive legal issues. In this … Continue reading