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View article: Working and writing together – a reflection
Working and writing together – a reflection Open
This is the tenth contribution to NILQ's Reflections on Writing series.
View article: How Does Legal Culture Matter for Climate Mobilities? A Case Study in an Unplanned Coastal Settlement in Urban Mozambique
How Does Legal Culture Matter for Climate Mobilities? A Case Study in an Unplanned Coastal Settlement in Urban Mozambique Open
This article responds to the general neglect of legal culture in the study of climate mobilities. It presents a case study of climate mobilities in an unplanned settlement in Maputo, Mozambique, exploring how legal culture influenced resid…
View article: Governmental influence over rights consciousness: public perceptions of the COVID‐19 lockdown
Governmental influence over rights consciousness: public perceptions of the COVID‐19 lockdown Open
A focus on rights consciousness has become a mainstay of the socio‐legal study of law in everyday life. Such research, much of it critical in orientation, generally uses people's sense of grievance as its starting point. The consequent ris…
View article: An ‘interface first’ bureaucracy: Interface design, universal credit and the digital welfare state
An ‘interface first’ bureaucracy: Interface design, universal credit and the digital welfare state Open
The front‐line of the welfare state is increasingly not a letter, phone call or face‐to‐face visit, but an online user‐interface. This ‘interface first’ bureaucracy is a fundamental reshaping of social security administration, but the desi…
View article: Direct and vicarious administrative burden: Experiences of UK public services as Homes for Ukraine host
Direct and vicarious administrative burden: Experiences of UK public services as Homes for Ukraine host Open
This article shows, through a study of hosts’ experiences of the UK’s Homes for Ukraine scheme, the ways in which sponsoring refugees can impose burdens on sponsors by virtue of the state’s administrative processes. Specifically, it shows …
View article: Whose procedural fairness?
Whose procedural fairness? Open
Thought on procedural fairness in administrative justice has traditionally focused on the relationship between public decision-makers and the person or group formally subject to the decision-making process. Yet, people who are not the dire…
View article: Legal culture and climate change adaptation: An agenda for research
Legal culture and climate change adaptation: An agenda for research Open
While climate change adaptation research has increasingly focused on aspects of culture, a systematic treatment of the role of legal culture in how communities respond to climate risk has yet to be produced. This is despite the fact that l…
View article: Why the UK Complied with COVID-19 Lockdown Law
Why the UK Complied with COVID-19 Lockdown Law Open
In March 2020, the UK introduced a set of rules to ‘lockdown’ the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdown constituted a key feature of governmental efforts to manage the early stages of the pandemic. Evidence suggests th…
View article: Undermining loyalty to legality? An empirical analysis of perceptions of ‘lockdown’ law and guidance during COVID‐19
Undermining loyalty to legality? An empirical analysis of perceptions of ‘lockdown’ law and guidance during COVID‐19 Open
This article substantially extends the existing constitutional and legal critiques of the use of soft law public health guidance in the UK during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Drawing upon the findings of a national survey undertaken during the f…
View article: “Creative Non-compliance”: Complying with the “Spirit of the Law” Not the “Letter of the Law” under the Covid-19 Lockdown Restrictions
“Creative Non-compliance”: Complying with the “Spirit of the Law” Not the “Letter of the Law” under the Covid-19 Lockdown Restrictions Open
This paper identifies a form of non-compliance with COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in the UK: “creative non-compliance”. Here, individuals justify breaking restrictions as meeting the “spirit of the law” if not the “letter of the law”. Dra…
View article: Rights and Solidarity during COVID-19
Rights and Solidarity during COVID-19 Open
The lockdown imposed by the four governments of the UK in late March 2020 represented an extraordinary, rapid, and radical restriction on normal life for the entire population. What did the UK public think about this unprecedented governme…
View article: According to law
According to law Open
Where law is lawful, decision-makers must comply with the law. If administrative justice is to be achieved in the global space, administrative decision-makers must be committed to 'legality', meaning that their decisions are consistent wit…
View article: Legal Compliance in Street‐Level Bureaucracy: A Study of <scp>UK</scp> Housing Officers
Legal Compliance in Street‐Level Bureaucracy: A Study of <span>UK</span> Housing Officers Open
Street‐level bureaucratic theory is now at a fairly mature stage. The focus on street‐level bureaucrats as ultimate policymakers is now as familiar as it is important. Likewise, the parallel sociolegal study of the implementation of public…
View article: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE COURT'S ROLE IN THE WITHDRAWAL OF CLINICALLY ASSISTED NUTRITION AND HYDRATION FROM PATIENTS IN THE PERMANENT VEGETATIVE STATE
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE COURT'S ROLE IN THE WITHDRAWAL OF CLINICALLY ASSISTED NUTRITION AND HYDRATION FROM PATIENTS IN THE PERMANENT VEGETATIVE STATE Open
In this article, we reassess the court's role in the withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration from patients in the permanent vegetative state (PVS), focussing on cases where health-care teams and families agree that such i…
View article: Cost analysis of the legal declaratory relief requirement for withdrawing Clinically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration (CANH) from patients in the Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) in England and Wales
Cost analysis of the legal declaratory relief requirement for withdrawing Clinically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration (CANH) from patients in the Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) in England and Wales Open
This paper estimates the NHS cost per case of the legal declaratory relief process in relation to withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) from patients diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state (PVS), in r…