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Are we about to see an era of experimental government?

Note: This post was originally published by the Institute for Government on 25 June 2015 and is re-posted here with permission. By Jen Gold When budgets are tight, governments tend to treat experimentation and evaluation as something of a luxury. But it’s never been more important to establish what works and ensure that spending decisions … Continue reading

Workshop on Administrative Justice Research in Scotland

by Tom Mullen, University of Glasgow, and Chris Gill, Queen Margaret University University of Glasgow, Tuesday 20 May 2015 This is a report of the discussion at a workshop on Administrative Justice Research in Scotland sponsored by the UK Administrative Justice Institute. The workshop was designed to address three principal questions: What should we be researching? … Continue reading

Report from the Ombudsman Association conference

There was a very good turnout for our workshops on research at the Ombudsman Association annual conference in Loughborough last week. The opening plenary session of the conference suggested that research would be a recurring theme throughout the conference. Dr David Halpern of the Behavioural Insights Team discussed the way organisations can influence behaviour through … Continue reading

Conference announcement and call for papers

ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE IN WALES AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 10th September 2015, 9:30am-5:30pm – Reichel Hall, Bangor University In association with the Welsh Government and the UK Administrative Justice Institute, Bangor Law School is delighted to announce an upcoming conference on the theme of administrative justice. Administrative justice is of special importance to Wales with its significant … Continue reading

Report from the annual Socio-Legal Studies Association conference, and a call for a new description of administrative justice

Margaret Doyle, Senior Research Officer, UKAJI At the SLSA conference at Warwick University at the beginning of April we saw some grim statistics presented in the Administrative Justice stream. Robert Thomas from Manchester University exposed some of the myths about numbers of judicial reviews in immigration and asylum cases. ‘Success’ rates at final hearing disguise … Continue reading