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The Privy Council has handed down judgment in Eco-Sud (Respondent) v Minister of Environment, solid Waste and Climate Change [2024] UKPC 19, confirming that interested NGOs have standing to bring claims in the Mauritius Environment Tribunal. Environmental NGO Eco-Sud had... Read more
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The High Court (Linden J) has handed down its much-awaited judgment in R (TTT) v Michaela Community Schools Trust, which concerned the lawfulness of a policy of Michaela School to prohibit prayer rituals for all of its pupils. The prohibition... Read more
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Aileen McColgan KC represented the University of Bristol in its appeal to the High Court against a county court decision in University of Bristol v Dr Robert Abrahart [2024] EWHC 299 (KB). The claim alleged that the University had discriminated... Read more
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Case concerned the expulsion of a boy from an independent school following violent and aggressive behaviour towards other children. The Upper Tribunal was required to consider the powers of the First-tier Tribunal to order the reinstatement of a disabled pupil following... Read more
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The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education and the use of judicial review as a remedy of last resort. Click here to read the judgment.
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Jonathan Moffett KC and Michael Lee are currently representing Surrey County Council before the Divisional Court in its defence of a challenge to its Special Educational Needs budget. The case concerns the extent of local authorities’ obligations to consult and... Read more
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The High Court has handed down judgment today in Siddiqui v University of Oxford [2018] EWHC 184, a widely-publicised case where an ex-Oxford undergraduate sued the University for allegedly negligent teaching and failure to bring his medical conditions to the... Read more
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The Supreme Court has decided that a parent commits a criminal offence on any occasion where his or her child does not attend the school at which s/he is registered unless one of the express statutory excuses is satisfied (sickness... Read more
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“A guarantee of high quality”, 11KBW entered the top tier for Public Procurement and Community Care, adding to our other top spots in Employment, Data Protection, Education and Local Government. In addition our clerks and their team were specially commended in the... Read more
