Independent School Disputes
Our education law team have specialist expertise in dealing with issues on behalf of parents against independent schools and achieving a satisfactory outcome for them. Parents often work and save hard in order afford the fees at independent school and expect a high standard of education and pastoral support for their children. Sometimes independent schools fall below the standard expected by the fee-paying parents.
Services we provide:
- Advising on admissions issues
- Advising and representing parents in exclusion, expulsion or suspension proceedings
- Advising parents on requests for removal of their children from a school
- Advising and representing parents in the complaints process
- Advising and representing parents over bullying issues
- Advising and representing parents in discrimination cases
- Advising and supporting parents who have withdrawn their child from an independent school without giving a term’s notice leading to non-payment of school fees
- Advised on breach of contract/negligence claims
