Misfeasance and Administrative Conflict
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Misfeasance and Administrative Conflict

By Andrew C Wood
Online event

Overview

A clear, practical introduction to misfeasance in public office—and how to think about administrative conflict before jumping to remedies.

Misfeasance and Administrative Conflict

Misfeasance in public office is often the first legal concept people reach for when they feel they’ve been harmed by public administration—especially where the experience includes delay, technicality, indifference, or what can feel like institutional gas-lighting.

But misfeasance is a high-threshold tort with strict elements. When it’s used loosely—alongside terms like malfeasance or abuse, advocacy can unintentionally lose credibility, escalate conflict, and miss more effective pathways for accountability and repair.

Focusing on leading High Court cases and the findings of the Robodebt Royal Commission, this TalkAbout tackles two things at once:

  • Black letter clarity: what misfeasance in public office is (and is not), how does it present as informational misfeasance, and what must be proven, and why it is difficult.
  • Conflict clarity: what’s happening in the conflict system when people “jump to the remedy”—and how to re-sequence that energy into constructive, evidence-led administrative engagement.

This is the first TalkAbout in our Administrative Law stream within Post-Law Peacemaking. It sets up later sessions on the CDDA (Compensation for Detriment Caused by Defective Administration) and Act of Grace schemes, and structured negotiation in administrative conflicts. Along the way, we’ll interleave Ethical Leadership themes including moral injury, moral courage, moral imagination, and moral accord.

Who it’s for

  • Veteran & community advocates, and lived-experience representatives
  • Public purpose stewards, integrity and complaints professionals
  • Governance and risk practitioners working around public decision-making
  • Lawyers and non-lawyers who want precise language and a clear pathway map for responding to administrative harm.

What you’ll leave with

  • A clean distinction between misfeasance, maladministration, public law error, negligence, and criminal wrongdoing
  • A simple two-lens method: elements of the cause of action vs elements of conflict
  • A practical “pathways map” for choosing next steps (including when misfeasance is likely a poor first move)
  • A vocabulary and framing kit that helps keep advocacy precise, credible, and grounded in responsible practice.
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  • 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Online

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Feb 16 · 2:00 PM PST