All of us here at the Law School at the University of Essex, and Essex Constitutional and Administrative Justice Initiative (CAJI), would like to express our thanks to our colleagues who were able to attend this session, and also to the attendees for joining the Webinar. We would also like to express our gratitude to ..read more

The Law School at the University of Essex, in collaboration with the Constitutional and Administrative Justice Initiative (CAJI) is looking forward to welcoming you to our online event: Let’s Talk Everything PhD So let’s find out a bit more about what this is all about… Who might this be of interest to? This event is ..read more

This blog post originally appeared in the Essex Law Research blog on 10 October 2024, and has been reposted here with their kind permission. The main chamber and the sala constitucional of Congreso de los Diputades in Madrid. Credit: Dr Tom Flynn. By Yseult Marique, Theodore Konstadinides, Joel Colón-Ríos, Tom Flynn, Giulia Gentile, Esin Küçük, Etienne Durand, and Zhenbin Zuo Essex Law School made a ..read more

Essex Constitutional and Administrative Justice Initiative is excited to be welcoming Se-shauna Wheatle and Elizabeth A Loughlin, the editors of Diverse Voices in Public Law, to discuss this recent text, along with the contributors of two chapters, Donal Coffey and Coree Brown Swan. In Diverse Voices in Public Law, Se-shauna Wheatle and Elizabeth O’Loughlin note ..read more

Lee Marsons, Senior Researcher, Public Law Project I am part of the editorial team at the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, specifically organising the Ombudsmen, Tribunals and Administrative Justice section of the Journal. I thank Essex CAJI for allowing me to use this post to invite article submissions for the section. The Journal ..read more

In 2023, the York Disability Rights Forum announced their intention to bring judicial review proceedings against the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board on the basis that its adult autism and ADHD assessment pilot pathway was unlawful. The pilot had been introduced in March 2023 in response to increasing numbers of adults seeking an ..read more

During the 30-year Northern Ireland conflict, which ended with the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, human rights violations were committed by a range of parties, including UK state forces. It has long been suspected that impunity protected this latter category of conflict actors, and that lack of accountability for serious harms, such as torture and killings ..read more

In the field of public law, and constitutional and administrative justice, methodology has not always taken a front seat. However, it is becoming increasingly more important in legal research to pay closer attention to the methodologies employed in this field. Whether writing a book, a PhD, a dissertation or an article, there is a growing ..read more

Essex CAJI is excited to announce our upcoming Webinar on 28 May at 3pm (London Time) in which we are honoured to be joined by Nick O’Brien, together with our esteemed panellists, Naomi Creutzfeldt from the University of Kent, Andrew Le Sueur from the University of Essex and our visiting fellow here at CAJI, Margaret ..read more

The core function of public services ombuds is to investigate complaints from individuals about “maladministration” by public bodies which has caused injustice. But ombuds have developed several other important functions designed to improve people’s experiences of public services. For example, as seen in the Council of Europe’s 2019 Venice Principles, ombuds are developing a role ..read more