UKAJI Christmas and New Year Break

UKAJI Christmas and New Year Break

At UKAJI, we will be taking a short break for Christmas and new year, and will return with new content in January 2020. We would like to take the opportunity to warmly thank those who have contributed to UKAJI over the last year, particularly our writers and readers.

If you have any blog posts, book reviews, or research summaries in the area of administrative justice that you would like to publish on the UKAJI blog in the new year, please contact Lee Marsons on lm17598@essex.ac.uk.

In the meantime, here in one place are the UKAJI monthly round-ups posted this year and the blog pieces published by UKAJI in 2019:

UKAJI round-ups this year:

• January 2019;
• February 2019;
• March 2019;
• April 2019;
• May 2019;
• June 2019;
• July 2019;
• August 2019;
• September 2019;
• October 2019;
• November 2019.

UKAJI blog posts this year:

• Kelly Shuttleworth (Bingham Centre) posted a blog entitled ‘Ombudsman schemes in the banking sector and how they can enhance access to justice’;
• Margaret Doyle (University of Essex) posted a blog entitled ‘Cruel and discriminatory: new research on prosecuting parents for school absence’;
• Carolyn Hirst posted a book review assessing Hilary Cottam’s 2018 book ‘Radical Help: How we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare state’;
• Lee Marsons (University of Essex) posted a summary of the PHSO’s January 2019 evidence session before the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee: ‘The PHSO at the PACAC: Rob Behrens and the Public Administration Committee’;
• Chris Gill and Carolyn Hirst posted their guidelines for employers on handling complaints against employees: ‘Being Complained About: Good Practice Principles and Guidelines’;
• Joe Tomlinson posted a series of three blog posts on the interplay between Brexit and administrative justice, available here: Part I, Part II, Part III
• Jennie Bunt posted a summary of the findings of her doctoral research on the collection of public debts by local authorities in Wales: ‘Defining vulnerability in the enforcement of public debts’;
• Margaret Doyle posted a blog entitled ‘Report on the Administrative Justice Council Academic Panel’s Pop-Up Event, 12 February 2019’;
• Gavin McBurnie posted a blog entitled ‘The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Consumer Protection – Report from the Ombudsman Inquiry’;
• Richard Kirkham posted a blog entitled ‘A manifesto for legislative reform of the ombudsman sector’;
• Margaret Doyle (University of Essex) published a blog concerning her report A Place at the Table: A report on young people’s participation in resolving disputes about special educational needs and disabilities;
• Carolyn Hirst (Hirstworks), Christian Gill (University of Glasgow) and Jane Williams (Queen Margaret University) published an update on their research project Being Complained About;
• Jo Hynes (University of Exeter) posted a blog related to her observations on the use of video link technology in immigration bail hearings;
• Jo Hynes (University of Exeter) posted a research profile about her research on legal geographies in immigration bail hearings;
• Paul Daly (University of Ottawa) posted a blog entitled ‘Big Data in Public Administration: Rewards, Risk, and Responses’;
• Paul Daly (University of Ottawa) posted a research profile about his research into artificial intelligence and administrative justice;
• Heidi Bancroft of the Administrative Justice Council (AJC) posted a short notice inviting attendance at the AJC’s academic panel workshop on mapping administrative justice in Wales and Scotland;
• Stergios Aidinlis (University of Oxford) posted a piece entitled, ‘The Administrative Justice of Government Data Sharing for Research: a Primer’;
• Charlotte May (Solicitor, Wiltshire Council and independent mediator) posted a piece entitled, ‘Court of Protection mediation research – Where are we in the UK?’
• Paulien de Winter (University of Groningen) posted a piece entitled, ‘Between the rules: Administrative justice and the enforcement of social security law in the Netherlands’;
• Nick O’Brien posted a piece entitled, ‘Administrative Justice: Orwell, Crick and the Political Quarterly’ following his award of the Bernard Crick prize for Best Piece of 2018 in Political Quarterly;
• Paulien de Winter (University of Groningen) posted a UKAJI research profile concerning her work into the administration of social security rules in the Netherlands;
• Rosa Morris (Independent Researcher), Michael Orton (University of Warwick), and Kate Summers (LSE) posted a blog entitled ‘Producing the next UK White Paper on Welfare Benefits: the Commission on Social Security, led by Experts by Experience’;
• Andrew Fagan (University of Essex) posted a blog entitled ‘Poverty and Inequality in the UK: Proud to be British?’ This related to Philip Alston’s report on extreme poverty and human rights in the UK;
• Della Reynolds (PHSO the Facts) posted a blog encouraging participation in a research proposal on the complainant experience with casework in the PHSO;
• Jaime Lindsey (University of Essex) posted a blog entitled ‘Researching mental capacity disputes: The role of mediation in improving participation in the Court of Protection’. In the blog she issued a call for participants in her survey on mental capacity disputes and mediation. The survey can be found here;
• Joe Tomlinson posted a blog entitled ‘Quick and uneasy justice: an administrative justice analysis of the EU Settlement Scheme’
• Sarah Craig (University of Glasgow) posted a blog entitled ‘Lowering or raising the language barrier? Reflections on interpretation, translation and the digitalisation of immigration tribunals’;
• Robert Thomas (University of Manchester) and Joe Tomlinson (University of York) published a blog entitled ‘How Immigration Judicial Review Works’;
• Professor Grainne McKeever (University of Ulster) posted a blog entitled, ‘Improving legal participation: what is legal participation?’
• Professor Maurice Sunkin (University of Essex) posted a review of Hertogh & Kirkham’s Research Handbook on the Ombudsman (Elgar, 2018).
• Chris Gill (University of Glasgow) posted a blog entitled ‘Accountability and improvement in the ombuds sector: the role of peer review’;
• Hideo Horasawa (University of Nanzan and University of Essex) posted a blog entitled ‘Public inquiries in Japan: Inquiries into the Fukushima nuclear disaster from a UK law perspective’;
• Richard Kirkham (University of Sheffield) and Naomi Creutzfeldt (University of Westminster) posted a blog entitled ‘Reform of the administrative justice system: a plea for change and a research agenda’;
• UKAJI posted an outline of Margaret Doyle and Nick O’Brien’s new book: ‘Reimagining Administrative Justice: Human rights in small places’ (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019).
• Sarah Nason (Bangor University) and David Gardner (No 5 Chambers) posted a blog entitled ‘Ten years of the Administrative Court in Wales: success or failure?’ (15 October 2019)
• Lee Marsons posted a blog summarising the book launch of Margaret Doyle and Nick O’Brien’s Reimagining Administrative Justice: Human rights in small places;
•  The Administrative Justice Council (‘AJC’) posted a blog piece introducing and summarising its first annual report;
• Paul Daly (University of Ottawa) posted a blog piece entitled, ‘Thinking about administrative justice – the Power of Mashaw’s model’;
• Vassiliki Vretou (The Greek Ombudsman) posted a blog calling for the introduction of an Ombud for Future Generations; and
• UKAJI introduced its new contributor guidelines

Once again, thank you for your support and best wishes for the coming new year.