By Sarah Nason Bangor University has published a major research report, Understanding Administrative Justice in Wales. The report is the culmination of a research project commissioned from Bangor Law School in December 2014 by the Committee for Administrative Justice and Tribunals Wales (CAJTW), successor to the AJTC Welsh Committee. The research included a stakeholder analysis, … Continue reading
In this blog post, Naomi Creutzfeldt, University of Oxford, discusses the findings concerning UK ombudsmen schemes in her ESRC-funded comparative study of ombudsmen in Europe. More information is available on her project website; a report summarising findings of the UK study, and additional individual ombudsmen reports, are also available here. By Naomi Creutzfeldt The research … Continue reading
This post summarises the findings of a study into the effects of judicial review (JR) in England and Wales which was funded by the Nuffield Foundation and undertaken by the Public Law Project and the University of Essex, with Maurice Sunkin as the Principal Investigator. By Varda Bondy, Lucinda Platt and Maurice Sunkin Overview The … Continue reading
by Michael Adler In this paper, Michael Adler, Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, highlights the enormous growth in the severity, the scope and the incidence of benefit sanctions in the UK since the turn of the century, and assesses the compatibility of the current sanctions regime with the … Continue reading
Last week UKAJI announced that we would shortly publish our current research register, as part of our work to develop a network of researchers working in administrative justice. Today we launch the initial version of the Current Research Register, alongside a number of profiles of projects listed in the register. The register The register is an … Continue reading