“Universities will welcome Government plans to reform laws governing the copying of works for educational purposes, a representative body for the sector has said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 10th January 2013
Source: www.out-law.com
“The obligation on a local authority to invite proposals to establish academies under section 6A of the Education Act 2006, as amended, was triggered if a local authority thought there was a need to establish a new school in their area. It was implicit in the scheme of Part 2 of the 2006 Act that there was a distinction between the concept of a “need”, which imported a sense of compelling requirement to establish a new school under section 6A, and a more general assessment by a local authority whether it might be beneficial for a new school to be established.”
WLR Daily, 14th December 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Education lawyers cannot ignore the European Convention of Human Rights. The ‘right to education’ is enshrined in Article 2 of the First Protocol to the Convention, and other Convention rights are often in play when education decisions need to be made. In this paper, we examine in detail the content of Article 2 of the First Protocol, and highlight the other Convention rights that frequently feature in education cases.”
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11 KBW, November 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“This paper concentrates on three recent cases concerning different aspects of the emerging law on Academies:
(1) Consultation on Academy conversions under s.5 Academies Act 2010 (‘the 2010
Act’);
(2) The extent of the obligation on Academies (both pre and post 2010 Act) to admit
children with a statement of Special Educational Needs (‘SSEN’); and
(3) The new Academy ‘presumption’ in s.6A of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.”
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11 KBW, 4th December 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“In this judgment (handed down on 14 December 2012), Sales J has rejected a challenge to the decision of the London Borough of Richmond accepting proposals from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster for the establishment of two voluntary-aided Roman Catholic schools (1 primary, 1 secondary) in Twickenham.”
Education Law Blog, 17th December 2012
Source: www.education11kbw.com
“This was an application for judicial review of decisions of the defendant Council to approve proposals put forward by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster to establish a voluntary aided secondary school designated by the Secretary of State as a school having a religious character as a school for Roman Catholics and a similarly designated primary school.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 15th December 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“Thousands of students could see their GCSE English grades increased retrospectively through a high court case beginning on Tuesday in which an alliance of schools, councils and pupils will argue that exam boards and the government’s qualifications watchdog acted illegally in changing grade boundaries midway through the 2012 exams season.”
The Guardian, 11th December 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“England’s exams regulator Ofqual has told the Education Secretary Michael Gove it has concerns over some of the changes he is bringing in to England’s exams system.”
BBC News, 5th December 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The privately-owned College of Law has been granted university status and will be renamed ‘The University of Law’, it has announced.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th November 2012
Source: www.out-law.com
Various Claimants v Catholic Child Welfare Society and others: [2012] UKSC 56; [2012] WLR (D) 335
“A lay Catholic teaching order whose brother members were assigned by it to teach at various schools was jointly vicariously liable with the school management body for acts of physical and sexual abuse committed by the brothers while employed by the school management body at a residential school.”
WLR Daily, 21st November 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Alex Verdan QC of 4 Paper Buildings reviews important recent developments relating to private children law.”
Family Law week, 22nd November 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“A Catholic teaching institute is liable for alleged physical and sexual abuse at a former boys’ school, the Supreme Court has ruled.”
BBC News, 21st November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The publication or endorsement of text books by exam boards has been questioned by England’s exams watchdog Ofqual.”
BBC News, 7th November 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A high court judge has ordered an urgent hearing of a legal challenge over the summer’s GCSE English controversy mounted by an alliance of pupils, schools and councils.”
The Guardian, 6th November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Bilston is the latest institution to have its licence to sponsor overseas students withdrawn.”
The Guardian, 2nd November 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Karwan Eskerie, barrister, of 1 Crown Office Row considers Munby J’s judgment in Re G (Children) where the court had to decide between the ultra orthodox Jewish parents’ conflicting wishes for their child’s education.”
Family Law Week, 21st October 2012
Source: www.familylawweek.com
In re G (Children: Religious upbringing) [2012] EWCA Civ 1233; [2012] WLR (D) 265
“In a case in which a marriage had irretrievably broken down, and the parents were unable to agree as to the precise religious nature of their children’s future education, care was required in looking to the welfare of the children and weighing up the relevant factors.”
WLR Daily, 4th October 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“What is happiness? If you thought this most philosophical inquiry was beyond the remit of the judicial system then you should read this case.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 11th October 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The days are gone when fathers held exclusive power over their children’s education, a judge ruled yesterday in rejecting the objections of an ultra-orthodox Jewish father to his ex-wife’s choice of schools for their children.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Tribunal rulings against academies excluding special educational needs pupils must be backed up by changes to the law.”
The Guardian, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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