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A workshop examining administrative justice in Scotland will be held at the University of Glasgow on 20 May 2015, 1-4.30pm. The workshop is free and will be of interest to policy makers, the judiciary, researchers, consumer advisers, regulators and ombudsmen and complaint handlers. The programme can be found here: Workshop Invitation and Programme – UKAJI 20 … Continue reading
Originally posted on UK Constitutional Law Association:
Avid readers of the legal press may have spotted the eye-catching statistic that in 2014 a meagre 1% of claims for judicial review were successful. The figure is derived from the statement in the MOJ’s overview of the Civil Justice Statistics Quarterly (October – December 2014) published on…
Ombudsmen have an important role in safeguarding public trust in professions and public service providers. In “Public trust and the ombudsman: the case of the OIA”, published on 12 March 2015, Rob Behrens (Chief Executive of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA)) examines the role of the ombudsman in the context … Continue reading
By Sarah Nason, Ysgol y Gyfraith/ School of Law, Prifysgol Bangor University On 13th February 2015, UKAJI held its first workshop designed to bring together members from the policy, practice and research communities. The seminar, hosted by Bangor University Law School and supported by the Welsh Government, was also the first stage in research aiming … Continue reading
How helpful is research to practitioners in strategic cases involving challenges to the state, and what do practitioners need? Rachel Knowles is senior education and community care solicitor at Just for Kids Law and a teaching fellow at University College London’s Centre for Access to Justice. She recently succeeded in challenging the Department for Education’s … Continue reading
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