On 18-20 April 2016, the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) at the University of Oxford will host the Fourth Annual Civil Justice Conference on Consumer ADR/ODR. The conference will address three timely topics and current research addressing these: How have Member States implemented the EU Consumer ADR Directive, and what landscape changes have occurred? Findings … Continue reading
By Alan Morrison A major project to map the bodies that make up the administrative justice system in Scotland was published last November by the Scottish Tribunals and Administrative Justice Advisory Committee (STAJAC). Here Alan Morrison, author of the report and Policy and Research Officer for STAJAC, describes the approach taken to the project and … Continue reading
By Charlotte Threipland As the Immigration Bill 2015 makes its way through Parliament, I wonder how local authorities, already at breaking point, will be able to cope with the increased demand on their services. Assuming the pressure will be too much what, in practice, will this mean for the vulnerable families needing those services? At … Continue reading
“Running parallel to the steady erosion, at least in England and Wales, of what we had come, perhaps complacently, to regard as an entrenched human right, the seminar series on which this book is based looked carefully and realistically at both sides of the issue: the shrinking availability of public funds and the practical … Continue reading
By Tom Mullen, Professor of Law School of Law, University of Glasgow A conference to mark thirty years of the specialised judicial review procedure – held jointly by Strathclyde and Glasgow University Law Schools – took place on 26th January 2015. The papers from the conference have been revised and were published at the end of 2015 in … Continue reading