Administrative Justice Network

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The proposed events aim to reenergise the debate about the administrative justice system looking forward and targeting pressing issues. The Administrative Justice System is about how government treats people - ideally it needs to promote a shared system of values and principles (accountability, transparency, fairness and human rights). How can this be translated into new challenges the system and its users are facing? The administrative justice system is made up of many institutions that do not usually communicate. There are many pressing issues that need to be addressed across institutions, across academic disciplines and across diverse stakeholders. We propose to hold 4 workshops and a conference that bring together all these stakeholders to explore current topics [for example: digitalization, data labs, ombudsman reform, tribunal reform, administrative decision-making, cognitive biases and AI]. The novel approach is that we facilitate an exchange between those actors in the administrative justice system that desperately need to listen and learn from each other. The workshops and the conference will allow exploring different angles to take the debates into new areas. The exchange will enable partnerships, learning from best-practise and developing ideas for future collaboration and follow-on projects. New insights will feed directly into the institutions and will be translated into practise. There is a great appetite and support for the workshops and the conference from the Administrative Justice Council (AJC), JUSTICE, the Cabinet office and the senior president of the tribunals. The planned events will include academics [economists, behavioural psychologists, internet academics e.g. Oxford Internet Institute, socio-legal scholars], government officials, interested public and charities.The aim is to develop a platform for increased engagement, collaboration and exchange of ideas between academics, practitioners, judges, ombudsman schemes and interest groups including those who assist the vulnerable and unfunded in obtaining access to justice.The planned events will assist in creating a framework to address urgent issues that are of strategic importance for the functioning of the institutions of the administrative justice system. The events will also provide an excellent opportunity to network and build collaborations for future projects. We have full support of the SPT, MoJ and JUSTICE.