TY - JOUR

T1 - Administrative justice in Wales

T2 - a new egalitarianism?

AU - Nason, Sarah

N1 - 2017 Taylor & Francis. This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record. The Bangor research cite in this article was funded by the Welsh Government.

PY - 2017/2/14

Y1 - 2017/2/14

N2 - Administrative justice systems are under a variety of pressures, in particular austerity inspired civil justice reform. I argue that such pressures do not necessitate the decline of administrative justice, and that a developing Welsh model has cross-jurisdictional appeal, especially to legal orders currently lacking a relevant organisational centre and joined-up approach. I examine the efficacy of existing conceptions of administrative justice and delineate a developing Welsh approach grounded in egalitarian principles. The nascent Welsh model emphasises reforming administrative justice hierarchies so that they work harmoniously with regulatory and value-promoting parts of the system, focusing on user perspectives, and tackling the risks of less transparent forms of bureaucratic decision-making.

AB - Administrative justice systems are under a variety of pressures, in particular austerity inspired civil justice reform. I argue that such pressures do not necessitate the decline of administrative justice, and that a developing Welsh model has cross-jurisdictional appeal, especially to legal orders currently lacking a relevant organisational centre and joined-up approach. I examine the efficacy of existing conceptions of administrative justice and delineate a developing Welsh approach grounded in egalitarian principles. The nascent Welsh model emphasises reforming administrative justice hierarchies so that they work harmoniously with regulatory and value-promoting parts of the system, focusing on user perspectives, and tackling the risks of less transparent forms of bureaucratic decision-making.

KW - Wales

KW - Devolution

KW - Administrative Justice

KW - Conception

KW - Egalitarianism

M3 - Article

VL - 39

SP - 115

EP - 135

JO - Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

JF - Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

SN - 0964-9069

IS - 1

ER -