Tag: Administrative Court
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Lewis Graham: Who Wins and Who Loses Before the Administrative Court?
Despite the Ministry of Justice releasing some helpful but limited data relating to judicial reviews, it is hard to know who wins, and who loses, before the Administrative Court. In an attempt to find out the answer, I designed and populated a dataset covering all reported cases handed down by the Administrative Court in 2024.…
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Cassandra Somers-Joce and Joe Tomlinson: When Are Public Bodies Legally Required to Proactively Collect Data?
In a recent Administrative Court decision, the Secretary of State for the Home Department was found to be in breach of the Public Sector Equality Duty (the “PSED”), contained in s.149 of the Equality Act 2010, due to failing to collect and monitor statistical equality data relating to the provision of asylum accommodation to vulnerable…
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Robert Colvin and Elizabeth Forster: Rolling Judicial Reviews: A New Era of Court Monitoring in Complex Cases?
On 5 June 2024, the Administrative Court gave its final word on relief in the (relatively) long running ECPAT UK judicial review (see R (ECPAT UK) v Kent County Council [2024] EWHC 1353 (Admin)). The case centred on Kent County Council’s (‘KCC’) failure to meet its statutory duty to look after unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (‘UAS…
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Daniel Hoadley, Joe Tomlinson, Editha Nemsic and Cassandra Somers-Joce: How public is public law? Approximately 55%
Judicial review judgments possess multi-layered value. For the parties to a case, they are an authoritative record of the outcome of a legal dispute, providing reasons for that outcome. For lawyers and judges, they support the provision of advice about the law and become legal authorities that can be used to argue and resolve future…
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Cassandra Somers-Joce, Daniel Hoadley, Editha Nemsic, and Joe Tomlinson: Better Evidence of Judicial Review Decision-Making: Exploring the Potential of Machine Learning
There are many claims made about decision-making in judicial review. The way that judges do decide, or ought to decide, cases is the subject of lively debate within the political, policy, practitioner, and academic spheres. For instance, in recent years there have been prominent warnings of the ‘conceptual growth or overgrowth’ of judicial review and…