A fair appeals system for GCSEs, As and A Levels in 2020

Last week, GSCE and A-level students gearing up for the national end-of-year exams had the rug pulled out from under their feet when the Government announced that GSCEs and A-level… Read more »

News 23rd March 2020

‘Sexual Misconduct in Law Firms’

Alexis Hearnden presents for The Law Society on the matter of sexual misconduct within Law firms. The webinar provides practitioners with a blue print for handling complaints of sexual misconduct… Read more »

Seminar & Webinar Archive 05th March 2020

Judgment in major SEN funding challenge

On Monday 7 October 2019 judgment was handed down in the case of R (Simone and others) v Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for Education. Following a… Read more »

News 07th October 2019

Education Newsletter – July 2019

Attached please find the summer edition of the 39 Essex Chambers’ Education Newsletter. This edition truly reflects the breadth of what falls within the term “education law”, with articles on… Read more »

News, Newsletters 18th July 2019

Judicial Review Over Inadequate SEND Funding

A two day rolled-up hearing starts today 26 June in a high profile judicial review challenging the failure by the Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Education to… Read more »

News 27th June 2019

Education Newsletter – April 2019

Enclosed please find the first edition of the 39 Essex Chambers’ Education Newsletter. This quarterly newsletter will address key developments in the law around education. We welcome your feedback on… Read more »

News, Newsletters 24th April 2019

BREAKFAST SEMINAR: Challenges to budget-setting decisions

In recent months there has been a spate of legal challenges to controversial budgetary decisions by public authorities. Claimants in such cases have been encouraged by the successful judicial review… Read more »

Seminar & Webinar Archive 13th March 2019

Victory for the Claimants in R (RD) v Worcestershire CC

In a judgment handed down on 28 February 2019, Mr Justice Nicklin has ruled that Worcestershire County Council acted unlawfully in failing to carry out proper transitional planning in relation… Read more »

News 01st March 2019

Zane Malik

10th January 2019

Families Launch High Court Challenge Against Govt Special Education Needs Funding Policy

Families have officially launched a High Court legal challenge against the government’s special education needs funding policy which is leaving “thousands of children across the country in limbo”. Jenni Richards… Read more »

News 19th December 2018