Education

Articles

6 Oct 2010

Councils launch judicial reviews over school building projects

Nottingham City Council, Luton Borough Council and Waltham Forest in London have launched judicial reviews against education secretary Michael Gove's decision to scrap the building schools for the future (BSF) programme.

4 Oct 2010

Update: local government

Peter Hill reviews the coalition's draft structural reform plan, localism bill and drive towards transparency, public procurement regulation breaches, and council surveillance powers

4 Oct 2010

Update: residential property

Janet Armstrong-Fox discusses preventing a sub-sale, the increase in the annual rent threshold for assured shorthold tenancies, a change to Land Registry policy on identification evidence, and the wording of contracts

27 Sept 2010

'Compo-crazy parents' survey sets scene for Tory conference

A survey for the News of the World has accused "compo-crazy parents" of "milking" £2.25m a year from schools in compensation claims.

27 Sept 2010

Must try harder

Parents are being forced into costly legal battles over special needs because local authorities are dodging their duties, says Edward Duff

27 Sept 2010

Trust issues

Too many basic errors have left the charity sector swarming with conflicts of interest – and it is up to lawyers to sort it out, says Michelle Russell

6 Sept 2010

Boy in the corner

The notion that the Supreme Court's ruling on a severely disabled boy's right to education has opened the floodgates could not be further from the truth, argues Yvonne Spencer

25 Aug 2010

Abolishing trivial regulatory crimes 'will save millions'

Cutting the number of petty crimes on statute books could save £11m a year, according to the Law Commission.