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Housing Law Basic Survival Guide

Date:
11 September 2008
Venue:
ETC Venues, London
CPD:
4.5

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Education Law Conference

In association with 11kbw

LGG is pleased to present the annual Education Law Conference in association with 11kbw.   Chaired by James Goudie QC, the day is to be held at the Royal College of Surgeons, London and is an essential legal update for Heads of Legal and all Lawyers involved in Education Law.  Peter Oldham of 11kbw will provide a comprehensive Case Law Update, and further speakers from 11kbw will provide an insight into developments within the various aspects of Education Law of Reorganisations, School Transport Disability Discrimination, Admissions and Special Education Needs.  There will also be an opportunity to participate in a question and answer session with the expert panel of speakers.

“This is ‘unquestionably the top set for education,’ benefiting from a strong local government connection, ‘extremely sharp barristers who know their law” Chambers UK 2007 – A Clients Guide to the Legal Profession

Chair:  James Goudie QC

Case Law Update
Recent cases on:

  • Special educational needs
  • Faith Schools
  • Race and sex discrimination / statutory duties

Speaker: Peter Oldham

Reorganisations

  • Avoid getting lost in the labyrinth: statute and regulation
  • Closing a maintained school
  • Alterations to maintained schools
  • Changes in status of maintained schools
  • Opening new schools
  • Academies latest
  • Possible future developments.

Speaker: Tim Kerr QC

School Transport
Speaker: Joanne Clement

Disability Discrimination

  • Case Law Update
  • Lewisham LBC v Malcolm
  • The interrelationship of SENDIST decisions and IAP decisions (R ota SP v Barking IAP)

Speaker: Kathryn White

Admissions
Speaker: Clive Sheldon
  
Special Educational Needs update

  • Costs in SENDIST cases 
  • Costings of provision (including consideration of O v Lewisham [2007] ELR 633 and Coventry v Browne [2008] ELR 1)
  • Transport and Part 4 agreements: implications of M v Sutton [2008] ELR 123
  • Over 16s: when is a child not a child (including consideration of R (Martin Hill) v Bedfordshire CC [2008] EWCA Civ 661)
  • Waking-day curriculum and the education / social services boundary (including consideration of B v Mr and Mrs H & SENDIST [2008] EWCA Civ 661)

Speaker: Holly Stout

Question Sessions with the expert panel of speakers

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