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VI. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank the members of the Working Party itself for all their hard work
and invaluable assistance over the course of this project.

The Working Party is very grateful to volunteers at BlackRock in London who
provided pro bono legal research assistance in aid of the report and to Weil, Gotshal
& Manges (London) LLP for also providing pro bono legal research assistance and
broader support to JUSTICE. We would also like to thank the Standard Life
Foundation for generously funding and supporting this project as well as the
BlackRock Gives Foundation. We are also grateful to individuals from the DWP,
who provided us with detailed information on DWP policies and practices.

Our thanks are also due to Alex Walters, the original Working Party Rapporteur
who sadly left JUSTICE in August 2020, and Stephanie Needleman, who took
over in that role. We are also grateful to Sir Henry Brooke Fellow, Florence
Powell and interns Abby Buttle, Rossen Roussanov, and Erica San, and
externs Alice Crawford and Sebastian Van Dack-Owens who
assisted with researching for, and preparing, the report. We are grateful
to Administrative Justice Council members Professor Naomi
Creutzfeldt, Westminster University and Diane Sechi, Simmons &
Simmons LLP, for the production of a survey and report on the provision of
social welfare advice during the pandemic, which fed into this report.

We are particularly grateful to the following people for sharing their time
and expertise with us:

Les Allamby, Chief Commissioner, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission

Dr Ben Baumberg Geiger, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy,
University of Kent

Phil Booth, Coordinator, medConfidential

Molly Blackburn - Accessibility and Inclusion Lead: User Inclusion and
Engagement Team, HMCTS

Michael Brazier, Head of Digital Inclusion at HM Courts & Tribunals Service

Regional Tribunal Judge Mary Clarke, Social Entitlement Chamber

Eleanor Deeming, Legal Officer, Legal Officer, Scottish Human Rights
Commission
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