Robert Thomas
@robertthomas223.bsky.social
Public Law Professor, University of Manchester, administrative law scholar and administrative justice expert https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/robert.thomas/publications/
I had entirely forgotten that I bought this - for 99p.
May 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I had entirely forgotten that I bought this - for 99p.
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We were delighted to host Professor Krisztina Rozsnyai recently in the ManReg Public Law Seminar Series for a fascinating talk entitled "Saving Hungarian Courts from the European Level: Mission Impossible?"
May 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
We were delighted to host Professor Krisztina Rozsnyai recently in the ManReg Public Law Seminar Series for a fascinating talk entitled "Saving Hungarian Courts from the European Level: Mission Impossible?"
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🎉 Happy Birthday to #WilliamShakespeare! 🎭
We're celebrating with a #BookGiveaway 📚
🔁 Repost for a chance to win a copy of Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers by @freeburian.bsky.social!
You’ve got until midnight, 23/04/25
Winner picked at random + revealed tomorrow! 💫
We're celebrating with a #BookGiveaway 📚
🔁 Repost for a chance to win a copy of Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers by @freeburian.bsky.social!
You’ve got until midnight, 23/04/25
Winner picked at random + revealed tomorrow! 💫
April 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
🎉 Happy Birthday to #WilliamShakespeare! 🎭
We're celebrating with a #BookGiveaway 📚
🔁 Repost for a chance to win a copy of Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers by @freeburian.bsky.social!
You’ve got until midnight, 23/04/25
Winner picked at random + revealed tomorrow! 💫
We're celebrating with a #BookGiveaway 📚
🔁 Repost for a chance to win a copy of Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers by @freeburian.bsky.social!
You’ve got until midnight, 23/04/25
Winner picked at random + revealed tomorrow! 💫
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New post by @markpmancini.bsky.social on the importance of procedure and legal orderliness. doubleaspect.blog/2025/04/22/f...
Fair is Fair
The requirements of due process are often minimal, but still important.
doubleaspect.blog
April 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
New post by @markpmancini.bsky.social on the importance of procedure and legal orderliness. doubleaspect.blog/2025/04/22/f...
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20 years of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme #AFCS
A blog post on my reflections:
- 127,414 claims
- 1/3 rejected
- 67% of most seriously harmed get much lower award than due
- 99.% of cases at appeal increased or maintained (only 55 / 11,035 reduced)
veteranlawproject.org.uk/blog/post31
A blog post on my reflections:
- 127,414 claims
- 1/3 rejected
- 67% of most seriously harmed get much lower award than due
- 99.% of cases at appeal increased or maintained (only 55 / 11,035 reduced)
veteranlawproject.org.uk/blog/post31
Veteran Law Project - blog
The Veteran Law Project aims to improve the experiences of service personnel and veterans harmed by their military service. Our work focuses on the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) and War Pen...
veteranlawproject.org.uk
April 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
20 years of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme #AFCS
A blog post on my reflections:
- 127,414 claims
- 1/3 rejected
- 67% of most seriously harmed get much lower award than due
- 99.% of cases at appeal increased or maintained (only 55 / 11,035 reduced)
veteranlawproject.org.uk/blog/post31
A blog post on my reflections:
- 127,414 claims
- 1/3 rejected
- 67% of most seriously harmed get much lower award than due
- 99.% of cases at appeal increased or maintained (only 55 / 11,035 reduced)
veteranlawproject.org.uk/blog/post31
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Celebrate World IP Day with @uniofmanchester.bsky.social exclusive masterclass on intellectual property in tech.
Join our expert panel to explore global IP challenges, geopolitics, AI-driven patents, and startup protection strategies. Don't miss out — register today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join our expert panel to explore global IP challenges, geopolitics, AI-driven patents, and startup protection strategies. Don't miss out — register today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Celebrate World IP Day with @uniofmanchester.bsky.social exclusive masterclass on intellectual property in tech.
Join our expert panel to explore global IP challenges, geopolitics, AI-driven patents, and startup protection strategies. Don't miss out — register today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join our expert panel to explore global IP challenges, geopolitics, AI-driven patents, and startup protection strategies. Don't miss out — register today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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If only there were other universities in other parts of the country with lots of lab space and/or space for building lab space where housing costs were lower.
High cost of housing in Cambridge and Oxford is putting limits on the growth of UK science and technology companies, ESRC exec chair @stianwestlake.bsky.social tells Lords Science and Technology Committee. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
High house prices ‘add to UK’s R&D scale-up troubles’ - Research Professional News
Oxford and Cambridge “virtually as expensive as London”, warns research council leader
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
If only there were other universities in other parts of the country with lots of lab space and/or space for building lab space where housing costs were lower.
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1/7 Can the executive ‘safeguard’ the constitution? The UK Constitution Committee says yes, but I worry. The plural UK executive means this is unlikely. And if we want internal executive checks like the civil service to work, we need to strengthen them now. Trump 2.0 is a warning.
How can we ensure that executive actors view themselves as stewards and guardians of the constitution?
BEN YONG (@bymyong.bsky.social) reflects on the promise and limits of institutional safeguards.
verfassungsblog.de/executive-co...
BEN YONG (@bymyong.bsky.social) reflects on the promise and limits of institutional safeguards.
verfassungsblog.de/executive-co...
April 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
1/7 Can the executive ‘safeguard’ the constitution? The UK Constitution Committee says yes, but I worry. The plural UK executive means this is unlikely. And if we want internal executive checks like the civil service to work, we need to strengthen them now. Trump 2.0 is a warning.
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The April 2025 issue of Public Law is now avail. on
Westlaw feat. a themed analysis section - Race and Public Law - compiled by @vidyakumar.bsky.social. Papers are by Vidya, on "Race and the UK Constitution"; Shreya Atrey "A Common Law principle of racial equality?"; Tom Frost ...
Westlaw feat. a themed analysis section - Race and Public Law - compiled by @vidyakumar.bsky.social. Papers are by Vidya, on "Race and the UK Constitution"; Shreya Atrey "A Common Law principle of racial equality?"; Tom Frost ...
March 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The April 2025 issue of Public Law is now avail. on
Westlaw feat. a themed analysis section - Race and Public Law - compiled by @vidyakumar.bsky.social. Papers are by Vidya, on "Race and the UK Constitution"; Shreya Atrey "A Common Law principle of racial equality?"; Tom Frost ...
Westlaw feat. a themed analysis section - Race and Public Law - compiled by @vidyakumar.bsky.social. Papers are by Vidya, on "Race and the UK Constitution"; Shreya Atrey "A Common Law principle of racial equality?"; Tom Frost ...
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@aileenmcharg.bsky.social are presenting a very early draft of our BA/Leverhulme funded interview-based research on the Sewel convention tomorrow at UCL. Rick Rawlings and Akash Paun will respond to the paper and ask why my footnotes are colour coded.
Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
March 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
@aileenmcharg.bsky.social are presenting a very early draft of our BA/Leverhulme funded interview-based research on the Sewel convention tomorrow at UCL. Rick Rawlings and Akash Paun will respond to the paper and ask why my footnotes are colour coded.
Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
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Strathclyde Law School is advertising for a readership in public law. Details here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI746/r...
Feel free to contact me if you have any queries about this post.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI746/r...
Feel free to contact me if you have any queries about this post.
March 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Strathclyde Law School is advertising for a readership in public law. Details here:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI746/r...
Feel free to contact me if you have any queries about this post.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI746/r...
Feel free to contact me if you have any queries about this post.
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...Roger Masterman, David Mead, Colin Murray, Charlotte O'Brien, Elizabeth O'Loughlin, Adam Perry, James Robottom, Jens Scherpe, Saba Shakil, Findlay Stark, Shona Wilson Stark, Gabriel Tan, Joe Tomlinson, Robert Thomas, Hélène Tyrrell, Sam Willis and Alison Young. [2/2]
March 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
...Roger Masterman, David Mead, Colin Murray, Charlotte O'Brien, Elizabeth O'Loughlin, Adam Perry, James Robottom, Jens Scherpe, Saba Shakil, Findlay Stark, Shona Wilson Stark, Gabriel Tan, Joe Tomlinson, Robert Thomas, Hélène Tyrrell, Sam Willis and Alison Young. [2/2]
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In the PUBLIC LAW volume we have contributions from Ed Bates, Joanna Bell, Nicole Busby, Kenny Chng, Paul Craig, Anurag Deb, Brice Dickson, Hasan Dindjer, Mark Elliott, Eleni Frantziou, Tom Frost, Ariella Gordon, Daniella Lock, Kacper Majewski, Conall Mallory, Lee Marsons, Stevie Martin... [1/2]
Jenny Russell and I are proud to present PUBLIC LAW AND THE UK SUPREME COURT and PRIVATE LAW AND THE UK SUPREME COURT, twin volumes of commentary on the jurisprudence of the UKSC's first fifteen years. All going well, it should be out this winter. Thanks to all contributors!
March 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In the PUBLIC LAW volume we have contributions from Ed Bates, Joanna Bell, Nicole Busby, Kenny Chng, Paul Craig, Anurag Deb, Brice Dickson, Hasan Dindjer, Mark Elliott, Eleni Frantziou, Tom Frost, Ariella Gordon, Daniella Lock, Kacper Majewski, Conall Mallory, Lee Marsons, Stevie Martin... [1/2]
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Jenny Russell and I are proud to present PUBLIC LAW AND THE UK SUPREME COURT and PRIVATE LAW AND THE UK SUPREME COURT, twin volumes of commentary on the jurisprudence of the UKSC's first fifteen years. All going well, it should be out this winter. Thanks to all contributors!
March 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Jenny Russell and I are proud to present PUBLIC LAW AND THE UK SUPREME COURT and PRIVATE LAW AND THE UK SUPREME COURT, twin volumes of commentary on the jurisprudence of the UKSC's first fifteen years. All going well, it should be out this winter. Thanks to all contributors!
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1/17 the ‘youth’ of spads 🧵 Robert Hazell at @conunitucl.bsky.social and I wrote a book on spads over a decade ago. We looked at about 600+ spads (1979-2013).
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/special-a...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/special-a...
March 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
1/17 the ‘youth’ of spads 🧵 Robert Hazell at @conunitucl.bsky.social and I wrote a book on spads over a decade ago. We looked at about 600+ spads (1979-2013).
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/special-a...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/special-a...
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Upcoming conference on the impeachment of Warren Hastings.
3-4 July 2025. A collaboration between the University of Worcester and @histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social.
2 days of fantastic speakers. You can book here:
www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academ...
3-4 July 2025. A collaboration between the University of Worcester and @histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social.
2 days of fantastic speakers. You can book here:
www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academ...
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: The First Governor General of India - University Of Worcester
www.worcester.ac.uk
March 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Upcoming conference on the impeachment of Warren Hastings.
3-4 July 2025. A collaboration between the University of Worcester and @histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social.
2 days of fantastic speakers. You can book here:
www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academ...
3-4 July 2025. A collaboration between the University of Worcester and @histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social.
2 days of fantastic speakers. You can book here:
www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academ...
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Details of this year's Public Law Lecture, to be delivered by Prof Alison Young, next Wednesday (online and in person).
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/03/14/e...
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/03/14/e...
Event: Public Law Lecture 2025
Professor Alison Young: ‘Parliament is not sovereign – and it’s a good thing too’ 19th March 2025, 5pm-7pm, University of Essex (in person and online) This exciting event, sponsored by …
ukconstitutionallaw.org
March 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Details of this year's Public Law Lecture, to be delivered by Prof Alison Young, next Wednesday (online and in person).
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/03/14/e...
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/03/14/e...
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We've worked with the Law Society(NI), litigants in person & other stakeholders to develop a Charter to help manage what can be a difficult relationship between litigants in person and solicitors on the 'other side' of the case. Details of the Charter launch below - please register to attend ⬇️
Coming up next week! You're invited to: ‘A Charter for Effective Participation and Communication between Solicitors and Litigants in Person in Northern Ireland’ on Tuesday 18 March at 4.30pm at The Law Society of Northern Ireland, Law Society House, 96 Victoria St, Belfast BT1 3GN.
Details below ⬇️
Details below ⬇️
March 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We've worked with the Law Society(NI), litigants in person & other stakeholders to develop a Charter to help manage what can be a difficult relationship between litigants in person and solicitors on the 'other side' of the case. Details of the Charter launch below - please register to attend ⬇️
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Dr Shiling Xiao (Manchester) presented a fascinating paper on Chinese constitutional review in the ManReg Public Law Seminar Series on Wednesday
March 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Dr Shiling Xiao (Manchester) presented a fascinating paper on Chinese constitutional review in the ManReg Public Law Seminar Series on Wednesday
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Is blockchain the key to the future of commercial arbitration?
Join Dr Joseph Lee and Dr Federico Ast on 18 March at 12:00 GMT to gain insights into the revolutionary role of blockchain and smart contracts in commercial arbitration.
Register today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join Dr Joseph Lee and Dr Federico Ast on 18 March at 12:00 GMT to gain insights into the revolutionary role of blockchain and smart contracts in commercial arbitration.
Register today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
March 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Is blockchain the key to the future of commercial arbitration?
Join Dr Joseph Lee and Dr Federico Ast on 18 March at 12:00 GMT to gain insights into the revolutionary role of blockchain and smart contracts in commercial arbitration.
Register today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join Dr Joseph Lee and Dr Federico Ast on 18 March at 12:00 GMT to gain insights into the revolutionary role of blockchain and smart contracts in commercial arbitration.
Register today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Please apply to join us at @lawuom.bsky.social, we are a very nice place to work! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF882/l...
Lectureship in Law, with a special emphasis on UK Human Rights Law at The University of Manchester
Discover Lectureship in Law, with a special emphasis on UK Human Rights Law jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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March 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Please apply to join us at @lawuom.bsky.social, we are a very nice place to work! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF882/l...