2019

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Artificial Administration in Action: the Robo-Debt Scandal

This is the second post in a series. The introductory post is here. In Bureaucratic Justice: Managing Social Security Disability Claims,[1] Professor Jerry Mashaw set out three influential “models” of administrative justice. Further iterations have been suggested by Michael Adler[3] and Robert Kagan,[4] but for present purposes Mashaw’s models are sufficient. A bureaucratic rationality model […] Read more

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The Future of Substantive Review in English Administrative Law: R (Gallaher Group Ltd) v Competition and Markets Authority [2019] AC 96

The UK Supreme Court’s decision in R (Gallaher Group Ltd) v Competition and Markets Authority [2019] AC 96 has already spawned a large literature (for open-access commentary, see e.g. Mark Elliott and Joanna Bell). I noted the case when it was decided last summer but did not have much to say, treating it, first, as […] Read more

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Three Types of “Material” Error?

When will a jurisdictional error be sufficiently “material” to justify the quashing of a tainted decision? This issue has prompted some discussion on the High Court of Australia, most recently in Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v SZMTA [2019] HCA 3 and especially in Hossain v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] HCA 34. […] Read more