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Research paper thumbnail of Supporting Tribunal Users: Access to Pre-hearing Information, Advice and Support in Northern Ireland

Research paper thumbnail of Barriers to Participation for Litigants in Person in Remote Court Hearings

Research paper thumbnail of Remote Hearings: LIPs and Participation in Court Processes

Research paper thumbnail of The moral hazard of conditionality: Restoring the integrity of social security law

Australian Journal of Social Issues

Research paper thumbnail of Conditionality, discretion and TH Marshall’s ‘right to welfare’

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

Research paper thumbnail of Worlds of welfare collide

European Journal of Social Security

Benefit Scheme (EUBS) as a manifestation of solidarity between citizens of different member state... more Benefit Scheme (EUBS) as a manifestation of solidarity between citizens of different member states and an economic stabiliser in the event of future asymmetric shocks. The EU-wide benefit would operate in tandem with existing national unemployment benefits. This creates challenges of compatibility given the diversity of approaches to social security within the Union, based on at least four philosophies of welfare: liberal, conservative, social democratic and southern European. This article examines potential legal, operational and political difficulties associated with marrying a EUBS that is at heart a conservative system of social insurance to the UK's liberal welfare state. Few legal obstacles exist and although the addition of a new, earnings-related benefit to an already complex mix of social protection would raise significant operational issues, these need not be insurmountable. However, fundamental ideological differences would have rendered the EUBS as proposed politically ill-matched with the UK even absent the June 2016 vote to leave the EU. A contributory income maintenance benefit is a poor fit with a residual, largely means-tested national system whose role is limited to offering protection against severe poverty while maintaining work incentives and minimising costs.

Research paper thumbnail of Social Citizenship and Social Security Fraud in the UK and Australia

Social Policy & Administration, 2012

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Research paper thumbnail of Social Security as a Criminal Sanction

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2004

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Research paper thumbnail of Fighting fraud: An evaluation of the government's social security fraud strategy

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 1999

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Research paper thumbnail of Political ex-prisoners and policing in transitional societies – testing the boundaries of new conceptions of citizenship and security

International Journal of Law in Context, 2007

The article aims to test the boundaries of traditional notions and understandings of citizenship ... more The article aims to test the boundaries of traditional notions and understandings of citizenship and security in transitional societies through the framing of a given question – should paramilitary ex-prisoners be allowed to join the police? The question, considered through an examination of the particular experience of Northern Ireland, acts as a springboard to the deconstruction of broader traditional and transitional assumptions around citizenship and the delivery of security in societies seeking ways out of violent conflict. The article is ultimately concerned, not so much to deliver a final answer to the specifics of the question posed in all contexts, but to problematise notions of citizenship and State to the point where broader questions need to be asked around accepted and preconceived notions of inclusivity, citizenship and security.

Research paper thumbnail of Conditionality, discretion and TH Marshall’s ‘right to welfare’

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

Research paper thumbnail of Social Security as a Criminal Sanction

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2004

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Tackling Benefit Fraud

Industrial Law Journal, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Detecting, Prosecuting and Punishing Benefit Fraud: The Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Political ex-prisoners and policing in transitional societies – testing the boundaries of new conceptions of citizenship and security

International Journal of Law in Context, 2007

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Welfare to work for the (in)capacitated - the reform of incapacity benefit

Industrial Law Journal, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Fighting fraud: An evaluation of the government's social security fraud strategy

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 1999

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Citizenship and Social Exclusion

British Journal of Criminology, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Supporting Tribunal Users: Access to Pre-hearing Information, Advice and Support in Northern Ireland

Research paper thumbnail of Barriers to Participation for Litigants in Person in Remote Court Hearings

Research paper thumbnail of Remote Hearings: LIPs and Participation in Court Processes

Research paper thumbnail of The moral hazard of conditionality: Restoring the integrity of social security law

Australian Journal of Social Issues

Research paper thumbnail of Conditionality, discretion and TH Marshall’s ‘right to welfare’

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

Research paper thumbnail of Worlds of welfare collide

European Journal of Social Security

Benefit Scheme (EUBS) as a manifestation of solidarity between citizens of different member state... more Benefit Scheme (EUBS) as a manifestation of solidarity between citizens of different member states and an economic stabiliser in the event of future asymmetric shocks. The EU-wide benefit would operate in tandem with existing national unemployment benefits. This creates challenges of compatibility given the diversity of approaches to social security within the Union, based on at least four philosophies of welfare: liberal, conservative, social democratic and southern European. This article examines potential legal, operational and political difficulties associated with marrying a EUBS that is at heart a conservative system of social insurance to the UK's liberal welfare state. Few legal obstacles exist and although the addition of a new, earnings-related benefit to an already complex mix of social protection would raise significant operational issues, these need not be insurmountable. However, fundamental ideological differences would have rendered the EUBS as proposed politically ill-matched with the UK even absent the June 2016 vote to leave the EU. A contributory income maintenance benefit is a poor fit with a residual, largely means-tested national system whose role is limited to offering protection against severe poverty while maintaining work incentives and minimising costs.

Research paper thumbnail of Social Citizenship and Social Security Fraud in the UK and Australia

Social Policy & Administration, 2012

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Social Security as a Criminal Sanction

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2004

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Fighting fraud: An evaluation of the government's social security fraud strategy

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 1999

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Political ex-prisoners and policing in transitional societies – testing the boundaries of new conceptions of citizenship and security

International Journal of Law in Context, 2007

The article aims to test the boundaries of traditional notions and understandings of citizenship ... more The article aims to test the boundaries of traditional notions and understandings of citizenship and security in transitional societies through the framing of a given question – should paramilitary ex-prisoners be allowed to join the police? The question, considered through an examination of the particular experience of Northern Ireland, acts as a springboard to the deconstruction of broader traditional and transitional assumptions around citizenship and the delivery of security in societies seeking ways out of violent conflict. The article is ultimately concerned, not so much to deliver a final answer to the specifics of the question posed in all contexts, but to problematise notions of citizenship and State to the point where broader questions need to be asked around accepted and preconceived notions of inclusivity, citizenship and security.

Research paper thumbnail of Conditionality, discretion and TH Marshall’s ‘right to welfare’

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

Research paper thumbnail of Social Security as a Criminal Sanction

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2004

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Tackling Benefit Fraud

Industrial Law Journal, 2003

Research paper thumbnail of Detecting, Prosecuting and Punishing Benefit Fraud: The Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Political ex-prisoners and policing in transitional societies – testing the boundaries of new conceptions of citizenship and security

International Journal of Law in Context, 2007

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Welfare to work for the (in)capacitated - the reform of incapacity benefit

Industrial Law Journal, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Fighting fraud: An evaluation of the government's social security fraud strategy

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 1999

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Citizenship and Social Exclusion

British Journal of Criminology, 2007

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