Tribunals are a major part of the administrative justice system. The Government has begun to introduce digital procedures in tribunals but the full details of the changes remain to be seen. This report—commissioned by the UK Administrative Justice Institute—outlines ‘what we know and what we need to know’ about the digitalisation of tribunals. It takes … Continue reading
UKAJI is publishing a series of blog posts about the Court of Appeal decision in Miller v Health Service Commissioner [2018] EWCA Civ 144 (February 2018), which identified a number of failures in the investigation by the Health Service Ombudsman for England. This first post, by Richard Kirkham, considers what the judgment tells us about judicial approaches … Continue reading
By Joe Tomlinson In this post, Joe Tomlinson explores critiques of the current focus on ‘users’ of administrative justice and suggests that grasping the multiple conflicting understandings of ‘user’ can help to clarify the underlying concerns about user-focused design. In UK administrative justice circles, it would be easy to get the impression that we are … Continue reading
The Northern Public Law Forum is an annual seminar series that will rotate around law schools in the north of England. The inaugural seminar will be held in 2018 at the University of Sheffield, with subsequent seminars at the University of Liverpool (2019) and the University of York (2020). The 2018 seminar will be held … Continue reading
By Joe Tomlinson and Tim Sandars On 1 September 2017, the University of Sheffield hosted a workshop, supported by UKAJI, on work on administrative and social justice by early career researchers. Joe Tomlinson and Tim Sandars provide an overview of the workshop and the papers presented. The New Voices in Administrative Justice Workshop was organised … Continue reading