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Posted 14 years ago4 minute read

Structured engagement – One of the best 2012 opportunities to reduce costs and improve the quality of dialogue

In recent years, it has been fashionable in some places to complain about formal consultation and place the emphasis firmly...

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Posted 14 years ago5 minute read

Implications of the Laidlaw Inquiry into mistakes made in the West coast mainline re-franchising exercise

At first glance, there does not appear to be any direct comparison between major public policy consultations and the fiasco...

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Posted 14 years ago4 minute read

High Court drama at Christmas – The judicial review none of us noticed!

We have to report that Tiny Tim and his friends have won their judicial review against Santa Claus Inc, with...

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Posted 14 years ago5 minute read

Back to the beginning…? – When a consultation has to start all over again … Or does it?

For several years the cynical anecdote has been that, when the Irish electorate voted the ‘wrong’ way in a Referendum,...

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Posted 14 years ago4 minute read

Time out for Twelve weeks? – Is the ‘Twelve-week rule’ past its sell-by date?

Ask any group of public engagement and consultation professionals about standards and the chances are that the one rule they...

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Posted 14 years ago5 minute read

Credible consultations! – WANTED – a few more whistle-blowers!

The first Tuesday Topic was written on November 26th, 2003. It was entitled Consultation – or just another survey? and...

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