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Administrative Justice Council Webinar on the impact of COVID-19 on administrative justice (29 April 2020)   On Wednesday 29th April, the Administrative Justice Council (AJC) hosted a webinar on the impact of COVID-19 on the administrative justice system. The webinar was chaired by Naomi Creutzfeldt of Westminster University, who co-chairs the AJC’s Academic Panel. Speakers gave … Continue reading →

A Manifesto for Ombudsman Reform     Richard Kirkham (University of Sheffield) and Chris Gill (University of Glasgow)   As we write this post, it is easy to feel overwhelmed by events set in train by the Coronavirus epidemic. UKAJI has helpfully detailed the scale of administrative justice matters that need urgent attention. In that … Continue reading →

The Emperor has no clothes: A sober analysis of the Government response to Covid-19   Opinion piece by Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley (Edge Hill University)   The Government has been criticised for doing ‘too little, too late’. Proposals to suspend duties in the Care Act, 2014, have led Disability Rights to complain that there is ‘a real … Continue reading →

Online hearings and the quality of justice By Johnny Tan (LLB student, LSE)   In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Her Majesty’s Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) has increased the use of audio and video technology to maintain the functioning of the justice system. However, whether such measures can adequately replace face-to-face hearings and how … Continue reading →

Jumping in with Both Feet? By David Whalley (retired mechanical engineer)   If the layperson wanted an interesting administrative and public law perspective on the new legislation regarding the UK shutdown, the UKAJI  April 3rd blog, ‘ Covid-19 and the UK Administrative State’ (here) would hit the spot.  The full implications of the recently introduced Covid … Continue reading →

Going online, in a hurry   By Margaret Doyle (University of Essex)   In the 2011 film Contagion, Dr Ally Hextall of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) inoculates herself with a potential vaccine she has created to combat a deadly virus. In the midst of global panic, she decides to bypass the time needed … Continue reading →

Virtual hearings, participation and openness in the Court of Protection Dr Jaime Lindsey (University of Essex)   There has been much discussion around the use of technology in the justice system as a result of measures introduced by the UK government to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. As widely publicised in the legal world, the … Continue reading →

Covid-19 and the UK Administrative State   By Lee Marsons (University of Essex) This blog was originally posted via the Admin Law Blog on 31 March 2020. The original can be found here. My thanks to Farrah Ahmed for the permission to cross-post. My thanks to Theodore Konstadinides and Maurice Sunkin for their comments on … Continue reading →

COVID-19 and administrative justice – a call for blogs, opinions, and news By now, it is inevitable that the spread of Covid-19 will have substantial political, social, economic, and human consequences all across the globe. This is also true in the legal sphere. For this reason, UKAJI intends today to launch a series of blogs, … 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 →