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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…
People aggrieved by government decisions about 22 different benefits are required to ask for a “mandatory reconsideration” (asking the Department for Work and Pensions to reconsider and revise its decision) within a month; failure to ask for a mandatory reconsideration bars an appeal to a tribunal. 32% of people visiting a Citizens Advice Bureau about … Continue reading
Chris Gill, Queen Margaret University, and Tom Mullen, University of Glasgow While tribunal reform was hardly the hot topic of last year’s referendum on Scottish independence, the ‘vow’ by the three main UK political parties to deliver further devolution to Scotland and the Smith Commission’s subsequent proposals, are now set to have significant consequences for … Continue reading
Every year, government takes millions of decisions on matters such as individuals’ entitlement to social security, their immigration status, and tax liability. Often, people can challenge negative decisions to a tribunal or lodge a complaint. This is the wide and variegated field known as administrative justice, that area of the legal system which most engages … Continue reading
[This was first published on the UKCLA blog on 25 October 2013] Triggered by the government’s consultation paper Judicial Review Proposals for Reforms published in December 2012, much has been written about the volume of judicial review challenges in the Administrative Court. As is well known, the government has largely justified its programme of reforms to judicial … Continue reading
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