“Two bills on the education system will be published by the Welsh Government, First Minister Carwyn Jones has said. He outlined Labour’s five-year legislative programme to Welsh assembly members on Tuesday.”
BBC News, 12th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A commander in the Royal Navy has been found guilty of dishonestly claiming allowances to send his two children to boarding school.”
BBC News, 12th July 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Wide-ranging new powers for teachers to search pupils and delete photos from their phones may fall foul of human rights laws, MPs and peers have warned.”
BBC News, 14th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The next set of changes to the Immigration Rules affecting Tier 4 – the student tier – of the points-based system has been laid in Parliament today. The changes will come into effect on 4 July 2011.”
UK Border Agency, 13th June 2011
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A pupil is taking a London school to the High Court, arguing its ban on ‘cornrows’ hairstyles is unlawful.”
BBC News, 10th May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A group of English local authorities are mounting a legal challenge against government budget cuts tied to its academies expansion programme.”
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BBC News, 3rd May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The public will be effectively barred from fighting incompetent doctors and councils in the courts under plans to cut legal aid, the body representing lawyers warned yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st April 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Archbishop of Westminster had an unfettered discretion to appoint who he wished as a foundation governor of a Roman Catholic school in his diocese provided the School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations 2007 were complied with, and that included appointing his diocesan director of education as a governor at the school. The requirement in regulation 18 that two of the foundation governors should at the time of their appointment be eligible for election or appointment as parent governors was fulfilled by the presence on the existing governing body of two foundation governors who had been so eligible when they were appointed.”
WLR Daily, 14th April 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A judge today condemned a ‘deplorable’ legal dispute between church leaders and parents over control of a top Roman Catholic comprehensive.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th April 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Tougher entrance criteria, limits on work entitlements and the closure of the post-study work route are among the changes to the student visa system announced today by Home Secretary Theresa May.”
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UK Border Agency, 22nd March 2011
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“A child’s status as a ‘looked after child’ for the purposes of the Children Act 1989 did not come to an end when the local authority, by virtue of a statement of special educational needs under the Education Act 1996, arranged for him to be accommodated at a residential school.”
WLR Daily, 2nd March 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note that once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is remoced.
“Two teenagers are seeking a judicial review into the government’s decision to allow university tuition fees to almost treble to up to £9,000 from next year.”
The Guardian, 24th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Details of the judicial review into the government’s scrapping of the school building programme.”
The Guardian, 11th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A high court judge has ordered the education secretary, Michael Gove, to reconsider his decision to cancel scores of multimillion-pound school rebuilding projects.”
The Guardian, 11th February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Lawyers will be asked to reveal where their parents attended university under far-reaching proposals by the Legal Services Board (LSB) to monitor social mobility across the profession.”
The Lawyer, 14th February 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The government has been defeated in the High Court over the way it scrapped part of England’s school building programme.”
BBC News, 11th February 2011
Source; www.bbc.co.uk
“Headteachers will be given greater powers to exclude violent and aggressive pupils in a series of major school reforms published today.”
The Guardian, 27th January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Tougher entrance criteria, limits on work and an end to students staying in the UK to look for a job are just some of the changes proposed by Immigration Minister Damian Green today as part of a shake-up of the student visa system.”
UK Border Agency,7th December 2010
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“The legal profession has become increasingly elitist over the past 20 years, with 15 per cent of lawyers being public school educated while just 2 per cent of the population is.”
The Lawyer, 15th November 2010
Source: www.thelawyer.com
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