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Chris Gill is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Glasgow. His research concerns access to justice and administrative justice. His work has been funded by ESRC, Leverhulme, British Academy, Nuffield Foundation, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada). Chris sits on the Academic Panel of the Administrative Justice Council, the Consumer Panel of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission, the Consumer Panel of the Civil Aviation Authority, and the Ombudsman’s Association’s Validation Committee. Chris also works as a consultant in the field of justice innovation: https://profchrisgill.com/.

Tom  Mullen is Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow. His research interests are in Constitutional law, in Administrative law and Administrative Justice and in Housing law. He has done extensive research on issues of administrative justice including the roles of complaints, ombudsmen, tribunals and courts in achieving justice for citizens in their dealings with government. His research has been funded by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, the Scottish Executive, Scottish Office CRU, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust.  He was a member of the Administrative Justice Steering Group (2008-2009) which published the report, ‘Administrative Justice in Scotland – The Way Forward‘ (2009), the Scottish Tribunals and Administrative Justice Advisory Committee and of the Independent Review of the Human  Rights Act 2020-21

Jo Hynes is a Research Associate in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow. She is a legal geographer whose work explores justice system design and the use of ethnographic methods in legal contexts. Jo previously worked as a Senior Research Fellow at Public Law Project, where her work focused on immigration legal aid and related access to justice issues, as well as the role of digitalisation in the justice system. She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research and partnership working across academia, civil society, and grassroots organisations.