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Explainer: Does the European Convention on Human Rights stop foreign criminals being removed from the UK? - UK in a changing Europe Joelle Grogan, Alice Donald and Victoria Adelman examine the relationship between the ECHR and immigration law.

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Q: Does the ECHR stop foreign criminals being removed from the UK?
A: Not nearly as often as media reports suggest!
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The distribution of decision-making responsibilities makes it difficult for all actors within the chain to understand & challenge administrative decisions and errors. This generates ‘bureaucratic disempowerment’ & complicates accountability efforts - raising critical questions for public law. 4/4

Decision-making processes now spread far beyond civil servants, bringing private actors into extended 'decision chains.' These private actors are 'publicised.' But they do not necessarily know that they are involved in a 'decision chain' at all. 3/4

Using Universal Credit, the UK's digitalised welfare program, as an illustrative case study, we show how the underlying digital infrastructure makes private actors (eg employers) responsible for providing data that, fed into automated systems, directly determines how much claimants are paid. 2/4

Data Entry and Decision Chains: Distributed Responsibility and Bureaucratic Disempowerment in the UK’s Universal Credit Programme Abstract. Digitalising public programmes creates new accountability challenges, many of which are under-theorised. Using Universal Credit to illustrate its

How does the design of digital govt infrastructure impact decision-making & accountability? @jenraso.bsky.social & I argue that data-sharing arrangements underlying digital govt programs are dispersing responsibilities within decision-making, generating what we call 'bureaucratic disempowerment' 1/4

Decision-making processes now spread far beyond civil servants, bringing private actors into extended 'decision chains.' These private actors are 'publicised.' But they do not necessarily know that they are involved in a 'decision chain' at all. 3/4

Using Universal Credit, the UK's digitalised welfare program, as an illustrative case study, we show how the underlying digital infrastructure makes private actors (eg employers) responsible for providing data that, fed into automated systems, directly determines how much claimants are paid. 2/4

When are public bodies legally required to proactively collect data? — Administrative Fairness Lab Cassandra Somers-Joce & Joe Tomlinson In a recent Administrative Court decision, the Secretary of State for the Home Department was found to be in breach of the Public Sector Equality Duty (the “...

- "When are public bodies legally required to proactively collect data?"
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- "How do claimants perceive the Mandatory Reconsideration process in the DWP?" www.administrativefairnesslab.com/coreblog/how...