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Inquiry into empirical research about law - report summary now available
Access to Justice - Thu, 3 May 2007
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Solitary confinement
Access to Justice - Mon, 13 November 2006
The Foundation is funding Dr. Sharon Shalev, Mannheim Centre for Criminology, LSE to produce a handbook on solitary confinement. The project aims to provide prison practitioners with a much needed single point of reference on the health effects of solitary confinement, and on professional, ethical and human rights law guidelines and codes of practice relating to its use.
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Cross border crime and defence rights
Access to Justice - Fri, 21 July 2006
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Seminars on the civil justice system in Scotland
Access to Justice - Tue, 8 March 2005
The Scottish Consumer Council is currently running a series of seminars for invited stakeholders on the civil justice system in Scotland, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. The Right Honourable Lord Coulsfield chairs the advisory group which is overseeing the project.
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A review of the Social Security and Child Support Commissioners
Access to Justice - Thu, 19 February 2004
Mr Trevor Buck and Mr David Bonner, of the Faculty of Law, University of Leicester, and Dr Roy Sainsbury, of the Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, have recently completed a comprehensive review, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, of the role and function of the Social Security and Child Support Commissioners, charting their development from 1975 to 2004.
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Inquiry on Empirical Research in Law
Access to Justice - Mon, 1 December 2003
On Monday 1 December the Launch took place at the Nuffield Foundation of a major Inquiry on Empirical Research in Law. The Inquiry has been established in response to growing concern within the academic and user community about a perceived dwindling of capacity to undertake rigorous empirical research in law. It seems that, while law is an increasingly important feature of modern life, we have a decreasing capacity to keep it under empirical examination.
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Restorative justice and the police complaints and disciplinary process
Access to Justice - Mon, 10 November 2003
Dr Richard Young and Dr Carolyn Hoyle, of the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Oxford, have recently completed an evaluation, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, of an initiative to apply restorative justice to the police complaints and disciplinary process.
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Proposals for a common EU Warrant of Arrest
Access to Justice - Tue, 19 August 2003
As part of a Nuffield-funded project for their work on the European arrest warrant, Justice held a seminar on 5 and 6 July, bringing together 122 lawyers, judges and academics from 22 European Union and accession countries to consider the proposals for a common EU Warrant of Arrest.
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Report on the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on judicial review
Access to Justice - Fri, 15 August 2003
In June the Public Law Project launched their report into the second phase of their study on judicial review, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. This phase looked specifically at the impact of the Human Rights Act on judicial review applications before the Court of Appeal.
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