Smoke from industrial action in the environment

Environment Bill briefing: Flawed enforcement and toothless remedies

How will the Bill inadequately protect the rule of law and fail to secure adequate environmental protection? Read our take

Secrecy and poor data have no place in constitutional reform

Why the Government’s approach is making it harder for the public to engage with its plans for constitutional reform

Government judicial review numbers are wrong: Stats regulator concurs

If figures we can see are wrong, what about the figures we can’t see?

DWP changes guidance on recovering hardship payment debt

Read our note to advisers on the changes that were made and why the practice was unlawful

Digital justice: digital exclusion

PLP researcher Jo Hynes writes for Legal Action Group on how the efficiency of digital justice systems comes with the risk of exclusion for those without digital access

Advances in EU Settlement Scheme guidance and policy

We explore the significance of recent positive developments secured in the EUSS

New Plan for Immigration: PLP consultation response

We uncover 4 unsatisfactory features of the consultation and why they risk creating barriers to justice

Judicial review reform: PLP’s consultation response

Public Law Project has submitted its response to the consultation, Judicial Review: Proposals for Reform. Read Public Law Project’s consultation response here. Our introduction to the consultation reminds policy-makers that judicial review exists to ensure fair and lawful public administration and promote high quality public decision-making. It ensures that the executive obeys the laws enacted

Judicial Review reform: Bad data must not lead to weaker systems

PLP has today written to the Office for Statistics Regulation, urging them to examine the use of statistics in the ongoing judicial review reform process.   There have been multiple instances of flawed use of statistics in the process so far, perhaps most notability in relation to Cart judicial reviews. On the basis of an

House of Lords Constitution Committee Report

Two weeks ago the Lords Constitution Committee published the first of three reports following its inquiry into the constitutional implications of COVID-19. This first report covers the impact of COVID-19 on the courts and cites written evidence submitted by Public Law Project.

Analysis: Government must disclose its decision-making models

Writing in the Judicial Review journal, PLP researchers Jack Maxwell and Dr Joe Tomlinson say that courts are increasingly requiring government to disclose the mathematical and technical models it uses to make decisions.

PLP contributes to Westminster Legal Policy Forum on Next Steps for Legal Aid

On 16th March 2021 the Westminster Policy Forum held a conference titled ‘Next steps for Legal Aid in England and Wales – funding, quality, access to justice and alternative sources of advice’. Dr Emma Marshall, Research Fellow at Public Law Project, attended as a keynote speaker.