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Mandatory Orders and the enforcement of public law duties: R (Imam) v Croydon LBC By Gabriel Tan In public law, the imposition of a duty on a public body means that the body must act in a particular way, or secure a particular outcome. Where these duties are not fulfilled, the most direct and effective … Continue reading →

The Independent Review of Administrative Law report – findings, recommendations, and pleas By Lee Marsons (University of Essex) A shorter version of this blog appeared on the Admin Law Blog on 24 March 2021, available here. On 18 March 2021, the day we had all been waiting for finally arrived. The Lord Chancellor, Robert Buckland … Continue reading →

Debating judicial power after the Independent Review of Administrative Law By Gabriel Tan On 18th March, the Cambridge Union hosted their Final Debate of Lent 2021 on the motion: ‘This House Believes Judges Make Better Law Than Politicians’, with two former Supreme Court Justices, Lord Sumption and Lord Neuberger, speaking on opposite sides of the … Continue reading →

Collateral challenges – what is their place in the contemporary administrative justice landscape? Lee Marsons and Yseult Marique (University of Essex) With the Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL), judicial review is very much on the political and legal radar. Not that it ever left, of course. As Joe Tomlinson has argued, despite several other … Continue reading →

The future of ombud reform By Chris Gill (University of Glasgow) and Richard Kirkham (University of Sheffield) On 28 January 2021, the Administrative Justice Council held a Webinar to consider how the ombudsman office could be further empowered to advance accountable government in the public interest. Each of the five leading public sector ombuds in … Continue reading →

Vaccination: Where the state meets the street By Margaret Doyle (University of Essex) Since April last year, I’ve been supporting a woman who lives nearby, whom I’ll call Deirdre, delivering her newspapers, doing a bit of shopping, and liaising with the Council over housing matters on her behalf. I see her every day, but Deirdre … Continue reading →

Lessons in the teaching of administrative law: A review of The Anatomy of Administrative Law By Richard Kirkham (University of Sheffield) Administrative law scholarship has changed in nature in recent years. Abstract debates around ultra vires have been replaced by the more confrontational challenge to the reach of judicial review posed by conservative think-tanks and … Continue reading →

Contracting out and administrative justice Robert Thomas (University of Manchester) Much of the thinking and debate about administrative justice concerns the need for government to make good quality original decisions and to get things right first time. If only administrative officials could become better at making decisions and learning from their errors, then the range … Continue reading →

Given the decision of the Independent Review of Administrative Law (IRAL) not to make publicly available responses received as part of its call for evidence, UKAJI has decided to bring together in one place IRAL responses which have been made public. Should you wish to include an IRAL responses on this page, please contact Lee … Continue reading →

UKAJI blog guidelines   Objective of UKAJI’s blog UKAJI’s focus is administrative justice. On our website, we define administrative justice in the following way: “Administrative justice concerns how we interact as individuals when the government, or those working on its behalf, act in ways that appear wrong, unfair or unjust. It encompasses matters of everyday … Continue reading →