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Conferences – calls for abstract submissions

Two upcoming admin justice conferences are seeking abstracts for presentations:   The Unity of Public Law conference – University of Cambridge, 12-14 September 2016 Deadline for abstracts 11 December 2015 – http://www.publiclawconference.law.cam.ac.uk/call-papers-0 What is the nature of the interconnections and interrelationships between different public law fields such as constitutional law and regulation, or administrative law … Continue reading

New research report: Understanding Administrative Justice in Wales

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

Trusting the middle-man: impact and legitimacy of ombudsmen in Europe

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

Busting the myths of judicial review: new empirical evidence on outcomes and value for money

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

Benefit Sanctions and the Rule of Law

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