Welfare, Asylum and the Politics of Judgment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2115116
AutoresLydia Morris (0009-0009-6153-4624, University of Essex, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen39
Número1
Páginas119-138
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s004727940999002x
OpenAlexW2156333518
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas16

This article examines 14 judgments over a ten-year period of challenge to the removal of welfare support from 'late claimers' for asylum. The case history spans a period of transition in Britain from the general principles of the Common Law to the implementation of the Human Rights Act (HRA) (Home Office, 1998), but indeterminacy is to the fore in such a developing area of law, allowing considerable scope for judicial interpretation. The focus of this article is therefore the cumulative dynamic of the judgments, their strategic delivery and their policy impact. The analysis demonstrates the force of general principles in yielding a solution, while also providing evidence of judgment as political dialogue over competing visions of society

Epistemology · Human rights · Indeterminacy (philosophy) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Judicial interpretation · Law and economics · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science) · Sociology · Vision · Welfare · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies