Think-piece: Place-based leadership and public service innovation

This think-piece explores three related themes: • Innovation in public service reform needs better leadership Top-down approaches to the improvement of public service performance – ‘target models’ – are of limited effectiveness when enhanced performance requires innovation. The promotion of innovation requires forms of leadership that are not commonplace in the UK. Improved leadership is […]

Think-piece: Place-based leadership and public service innovation
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Reinventing the Civic University

In the context of a severe recession, pressure on the public finances and major societal challenges such as global warming and the ageing population Governments are quite properly asking: what are universities for? In this provocation it is argued that all publicly-funded universities in the UK have a civic duty to engage with wider society […]

Reinventing the Civic University
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Destitution in the UK 2018

This research looks at the factors pushing people into destitution and the solutions to the problem. It highlights three key asks which would protect people from becoming destitute and support those who end up in destitution. The UK Government needs to: End the freeze on working-age benefits so they at least keep up with the […]

Destitution in the UK 2018
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Proposals for the Reform of Legal Aid in England and Wales

This consultation paper, published in 2010, proposes reforms to the legal aid scheme, many of which were enacted by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

Proposals for the Reform of Legal Aid in England and Wales
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Litigants in person in private family law cases

Trinder et al., Elizabeth

London: Ministry of Justice

2014

Litigants in person in private family law cases
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Data Collection and Digital Courts

In April 2018, TLEF sought advice from one of the country’s leading information lawyers, Timothy Pitt-Payne QC on the collection of equalities data in the context of the ongoing programme of court reform led by HMCTS. In particular, TLEF were keen to clarify whether Government Digital Service Standards (“GDSS”), the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) […]

Data Collection and Digital Courts
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The Online Court
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