“A judge has been condemned for telling a teacher convicted of child porn offences that she did not criticise him for being attracted to children.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th July 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A science teacher who attacked a 14-year-old pupil with a dumbbell has been banned from teaching for life.
Peter Harvey, now 51, had been provoked by pupils during a lesson in July 2009 when they called him a ‘psycho’ and ‘bald-headed bastard’. He lost control and hit the teenager about the head with the 3kg weight while shouting ‘die, die, die’.”
The Guardian, 30th July 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Teachers who had been employed by the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families and seconded to work at European Schools throughout the European Union were entitled to bring unfair dismissal claims before an employment tribunal under section 94(1) of the Employment Rights Act 1996.”
WLR Daily, 15th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Teachers working for the UK Government in European Schools should have the same protections from unfair dismissal as those working in the UK, the Supreme Court has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st July 2011
Source: www.out-law.com
“A teaching assistant accused of acts of abuse of trust with a pupil was not entitled to legal representation in school disciplinary proceedings which might lead to a referral to the Independent Safeguarding Authority, which could bar him from working with children.”
WLR Daily, 29th June 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A primary school teacher who filmed himself sexually abusing young girls in his classroom has been jailed indefinitely.”
The Guardian, 14th June 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A college lecturer who had a six-month relationship with a teenage student was today jailed for eight months.”
The Independent, 13th May 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A drama teacher who took advantage of a vulnerable pupil and had a lesbian affair with her has been jailed for three years.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th May 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A teacher who raped and sexually assaulted one of his pupils after abducting her from a school disco was jailed for nine years today.”
The Independent, 7th April 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A teacher who dubbed himself the ‘Salford Stallion’ as he slept with three of his high school pupils was today jailed for six years.”
The Independent, 5th April 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Owens v Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council [2011] EWCA Civ 359; [2011] WLR (D) 120
“Where the pension entitlement of an employee seeking a teachers’ pension was being determined and the term ‘teacher’ had not been defined by the legislature the word was to be construed in accordance with its natural meaning.”
WLR Daily, 31st March 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“It was objectively justified, under regulation 8 of the Fixed-term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002, for the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families to employ teachers on a succession of fixed-term contracts for secondment to European Schools.”
WLR Daily, 30th March 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A teacher who helped pupils to read by writing them into a raunchy novel has lost her appeal against dismissal, but on a majority verdict in which she was strongly backed by the judge chairing the employment tribunal.”
The Guardian, 18th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A much-praised teacher who persuaded difficult pupils to read by making them characters in their own, grittily realistic novel is about to find out whether an employment tribunal will allow her to relaunch her career.”
The Guardian, 22nd February 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Teacher pursues seven-year battle to return to classroom after being acquitted of sexual assault.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th January 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A teacher was sacked after bringing a sledge into school and allowing two pupils to ride on it, a disciplinary hearing has heard.”
BBC News, 11th January 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A ballet teacher who flouted a police order not to continue her inappropriate relationship with a talented and vulnerable 15-year-old boy dancer was handed a suspended jail term today.”
The Independent, 7th January 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Louise Yeoman, 29, pleaded guilty to ten charges related to a sexual relationship she conducted with 15-year-old girl at her school. The court heard that the offences took place between December 2008 and March this year while Yeoman was teaching at a secondary school in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.”
Daily Telegraph, 11th November 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A teacher of English whose voice was permanently damaged as she struggled to make herself heard in the classroom has been awarded more than £150,000 in compensation.”
The Guardian, 9th November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Headteachers are to be given the power to dismiss teachers who are members of the BNP or other groups which have an ‘extremist tenor’.”
The Guardian, 2nd November 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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