What happens to hearing space in remote hearings? And how can legal geography help us understand these digital developments? My new🔓paper explores these questions & argues space is dispersed, stretched & snapped along a continuum of remoteness. Read on to make sense of this...

📢Calling all parents and guardians📢 Next week, children's rights become law in Scotland. SPSO has produced guidance for public services and anyone looking after children on how to handle complaints from them. spso.org.uk/child-friendly… Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland Together 🧡 Scottish Government

Our Director Professor Nicola McEwen appeared on BBC Debate Night last night 📺👇 If you missed it, you can watch back on iPlayer 🔗 bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Last workshop of the season! "The Future of Ombuds Research. Empirical and Critical Perspectives" (18-19 July) iisj.net/en/workshops/f… #iisj #iisl #oñati

ICYMI: 📽 A recording of our Child Friendly Complaints launch event has landed! If you missed the launch of our Child Friendly Complaints handling principles and procedures you can watch it online: spso.org.uk/child-friendly… #UNCRC #ChildFriendlyComplaints vimeo.com/987066726

Great to see this out helped along by some really helpful reviews. Thank you unknown people! Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Super day at #BelfastPride with Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman (NIPSO) colleagues. Sharing the message that our services are for everyone.

My first article is out! Based on a chapter of my master thesis, looking at the design of local welfare assistance schemes across England! doi.org/10.1080/096490…

After a 3-year research project funded by Scottish Government, Professor Janeen Carruthers and Felicity Belton delivered their report on "Combatting Forced Marriage: Strengthening Protection in Scots Law". 📘Read the findings👇 scjh.org.uk/2024/07/combat…

My new piece on publicness in public administration and the use of machine learning is finally out! 🧵 Impoverished Publicness of Algorithmic Decision Making academic.oup.com/ojls/article/d…

Latest update from the The British Academy funded Ombudspersons and the Protection of Refugees and Asylum Seekers Project, which I am conducting in partnership with Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman (NIPSO). A project update and some early themes oprasproject.wordpress.com/2024/08/19/a-p…

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Dear Volodymyr @zelenskyyua, we stand with #Ukraine in good and in testing times. We must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war. (FM)

Panel discussion on how to get decision-making right first time, with Chris Gill from University of Glasgow, Ollie Persey from Garden Ct - Public Law and Alex Stafford from IPSEA’s legal team. #SENLawConf

Chris Gill Ollie Persey Garden Ct - Public Law Chris Gill asks why unlawful decision-making is so widespread? Lack of awareness of law, or lack of ‘identification’ with the law? Research among decision-makers finds preference for ‘professional or bureaucratic judgements’ over legal judgements in SEN. #SENLawConf

Chris Gill Ollie Persey Garden Ct - Public Law Some decision-makers believe the legal framework privileges individual interests over collective interests, and the Tribunal doesn’t understand pressures LAs are under. #SENLawConf