education

  • legal challenges to educational institutions concerning admissions policies and practices

  • assisting numerous educational institutions in actions for recovery of fees. We have a dedicated debt recovery team with wide experience in this area

  • acting for educational institutions in disputes relating to internal disciplinary inquiries and proceedings

  • advising and acting in disputes between institutions and students or third parties concerning the unauthorised use and occupation of school and college premises

  • duty of care owed to students including in particular the duty owed on field trips

  • advising the governors of a secondary school concerning the harassment of a female pupil by a former male member of staff

  • advising on the implications of recent legislation for the assessment and evaluation of Special Educational Needs, and the curricular implications for the institutions concerned

  • representing, respectively, a secondary school and a leading college of higher education in court proceedings brought by students for negligence, breach of contract, and misrepresentation for allegedly failing to deliver on curricular and on advertised course content

  • advising on a claim brought by a student for lost opportunity/loss of future earnings as a result of an alleged failure to comply with Examination Board requirements