https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6967-4762Biography
Jo Hynes 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 currently working on a Nuffield Foundation funded project, Understanding and Developing User Focused Tribunal Hearings with Professor Chris Gill and Professor Tom Mullen.
Research interests
Jo is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research and partnership working across academia, civil society, and grassroots organisations.
Publications
2025
Hynes, Jo 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6967-4762
(2025)
Managing time: speeding up and slowing down in the immigration bail court.
Journal of Law and Society, 52(3),
pp. 434-455.
(doi: 10.1111/jols.70016)
Articles
Hynes, Jo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6967-4762
(2025)
Managing time: speeding up and slowing down in the immigration bail court.
Journal of Law and Society, 52(3),
pp. 434-455.
(doi: 10.1111/jols.70016)
Prior publications
Article
Jo Hynes (2025) Convenience, choice, and trust: accessibility of remote advice interactions and the client perspective. Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law Jo Hynes.
Jo Hynes (2024) Physical and virtual spaces across a continuum of remoteness: Exploring spatial ruptures in remote court hearings Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Jo Hynes. ISSN 1475-5661 (doi: 10.1111/tran.12694)
Jo Hynes (2024) Loitering with (research) intent: Remote ethnographies in the immigration tribunal Area Crossref. (doi: 10.1111/area.12896)
Nick Gill, Jo Hynes (2021) Courtwatching: Visibility, publicness, witnessing, and embodiment in legal activism Area Crossref. (doi: 10.1111/area.12690)
Jo Hynes, Joe Tomlinson, Emma Marshall, Maria Wardale, Cecilia Correale (2021) Holes in the digital parachute: an analysis of the introduction of online immigration appeals. Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law Jo Hynes.
Joe Tomlinson, Jo Hynes, Emma Marshall, Jack Maxwell (2021) Judicial Review during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Public Law Jo Hynes.
Jo Hynes, Nick Gill, Joe Tomlinson (2020) In defence of the hearing? Emerging geographies of publicness, materiality, access and communication in court hearings Geography Compass Jo Hynes. ISSN 1749-8198 (doi: 10.1111/gec3.12499)
Report
Jo Hynes (2025) Experiences of accessing education in asylum accommodation. Together with Migrant Children & Public Law Project Jo Hynes.
Jo Hynes, Joseph Summers (2024) Access to immigration legal aid in south-west England, 2024. Public Law Project Jo Hynes.
Jo Hynes (2024) Remote immigration and asylum advice: what we know and what we need to know. Public Law Project, Helen Bamber Foundation, A&M Consultancy Jo Hynes.
Jo Hynes, Mia Leslie (2023) ‘Constantly on edge’: The expansion of GPS tagging and the rollout of non-fitted devices. Public Law Project Jo Hynes.
Jo Hynes, Rudy Schulkind, Woodren Brade (2023) Every Move You Make: The Human Cost of GPS Tagging in the Immigration System. Public Law Project, Bail for Immigration Detainees, Medical Justice Jo Hynes.
Jo Hynes (2023) Overstretched & unsustainable: a case study of the immigration and asylum legal aid sector. Public Law Project & Young Legal Aid Lawyers Jo Hynes.
Jo Hynes (2021) Public Law Project roundtable: Preventing exclusion in an age of digitalisation. Public Law Project Jo Hynes.
Jo Hynes (2021) Digital Support for HMCTS Reformed Services: What we know and what we need to know. Public Law Project Jo Hynes.
Jo Hynes, Joe Tomlinson, Emma Marshall, Jack Maxwell, Maria Wardale, Cecilia Correale (2020) Online Immigration Appeals: A Case Study of the First-tier Tribunal. Public Law Project Jo Hynes.
Joe Tomlinson, Jo Hynes, Emma Marshall, Jack Maxwell (2020) Judicial Review during COVID-19. Public Law Project Jo Hynes.
