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Administrative law and the digital welfare state in the UK and Australia
Administrative law and the digital welfare state in the UK and Australia Jack Maxwell (Research Fellow in Public Law and Technology, Public Law Project) Technology plays a central role in the modern welfare state. Governments are increasingly using technology to confirm identities, assess eligibility, calculate and make payments, and detect fraud. This new mode … Continue reading
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Judicial review and Covid-19: reflections on the role of crowdfunding Sam Guy – MA Social Research student and incoming ESRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of York The Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been subject to significant numbers of judicial review challenges, many of which have been financed using crowdfunding. These cases, … Continue reading
Here is UKAJI’s round-up of administrative justice news, events, publications, and cases for May 2020. If you have anything to add to this round-up or any future round-ups, please contact Lee Marsons on lm17598@essex.ac.uk. UKAJI blogs UKAJI March and April 2020 round-up Administrative Justice Council Webinar on the impact of COVID-19 on administrative justice … Continue reading
New Research Report: Public Administration and a Just Wales Dr Sarah Nason and Ann Sherlock (Bangor University), Dr Helen Taylor (Cardiff Metropolitan University), Dr Huw Pritchard (Cardiff University Wales Governance Centre) The Full Report can be found here English summary here Welsh Summary here Although ‘justice’ (understood as courts, police, prisons, probation etc) … Continue reading
New Research Report: Public Administration and Justice in Wales – Social Housing and Homelessness Dr Sarah Nason and Ann Sherlock (Bangor University), Dr Helen Taylor (Cardiff Metropolitan University), Dr Huw Pritchard (Cardiff University Wales Governance Centre) Although ‘justice’ (understood as courts, police, prisons, probation etc) is not devolved to Wales, significant aspects of … Continue reading
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
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
