Abstract | This chapter explores the challenges and opportunities for ombuds and tribunals in the modern state. Ombuds and tribunals, institutions of the administrative justice system, play an important role in enhancing the relationship between the citizen and the state. Despite being part of a wider system, and having jurisdictional cross-overs, the two bodies don’t interact in a meaningful way. A system of cross-referral and transfer of cases between the two jurisdictions could drive improvements in initial decision-making and in the wider system. In this chapter I build on legal consciousness research and propose a framework through which users of a (digital) justice system can be better understood and, at the same time, how designers of such systems can use this framework to create a system of justice in the modern state. |
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