PLP have written to the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into assessments for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payments (PIPs). Our letter concerns amendments to the PIP regulations, which PLP is currently contesting to be discriminatory. It also concerns distress caused by the assessment procedure and the evidential burden on those suffering…
The Government has announced that it will table an amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill to define ‘exit day’ as 11pm on 29th March 2019. The Public Law Project (PLP) welcomes the amendment, which addresses some of the concerns raised by Parliamentarians and civil society organisations. In particular, PLP raised concerns that allowing ‘exit day’ to be defined by…
The Public Law Project (PLP) is representing a client, RF, who is bringing a challenge to the unfair and discriminatory way those with psychological distress are treated by the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) rules. PIP was introduced in 2013 as a replacement for the Disability Living Allowance and provides an essential lifeline for people with disabilities to…
PLP has appointed Joe Tomlinson as Research Director. Joe is a Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Sheffield School of Law and an Associate Fellow of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics. He is also a member of the Wider Core Team at the UK Administrative Justice Institute.…
Ahead of the Second Reading of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill on Thursday 07th September, PLP has prepared a briefing paper for Members highlighting our key concerns with the Bill.…
On the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, PLP has written to the Home Secretary to ask her widen the scope of the ‘Turing Law’.
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Lord Toulson made a particularly thoughtful and memorable closing address to the Public Law Project annual conference last year, for which we are hugely grateful. We would like to give our condolences to Lady Toulson and his family, and add to the many voices noting his sophistication and intellect in judgment, and distinctly kind and approachable personality.…
Following representations made by PLP (supported by information and evidence from other providers and the Legal Aid Practitioners’ Group) in connection with a case in which our time claimed for making a CCMS application had been reduced on assessment from 3 hours to 30 minutes, the LAA has now agreed to make further enquiries and to review the relevant provisions of the Guidance in light of its findings and the points made by PLP.…
PLP has written to The Rt Hon David Lidington MP Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, and to The Rt Hon David Gauke MP Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to introduce PLP and to invite further discussions regarding, the LASPO Review and mandatory reconsiderations of benefit decisions, respectively.…
This is a very shortened version of an article by John Pring in the Disability News Service, 17 May 2017.…
We are delighted to be able to offer a 12-month employed pupillage as part of a two-year Justice First Fellowship.…
PLP’s Director Jo Hickman has been shortlisted for ‘Legal Personality of the Year’ at the prestigious Solicitor’s Journal Awards.…