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  • The Tory legal bits

    Carl Gardner
    April 14, 2010

    Following my post on the “legal bits” of the Labour manifesto, here’s my analysis of the most important Conservative proposals of particular legal interest. I warn you: this is a long one, and needs sub-headings.

    Constitutional law

    On the constitution, the Tories […]

    Tags: crime, discrimination, education, employment, europe, government, house of lords, human rights, immigration, legislation, lisbon treaty
  • Balls on human rights

    Carl Gardner
    April 9, 2010

    I was interested in a debate yesterday kicked off by Jessica Asato, writing at Left Foot Forward about the way Conservative opposition led to the government’s dropping provisions in the Children, Schools and Families Bill about personal, social […]

    Tags: children, education, government, human rights, legislation, parliament
  • R (E) v JFS: something has gone wrong

    Carl Gardner
    December 16, 2009

    The Supreme Court has given judgment today in this case about the admissions policy of JFS school, a state secondary school that has been educating Jewish children in London since 1732. M’s father, E wanted M to go to the […]

    Tags: discrimination, education, race discrimination, religion
  • McDougal v Liverpool City Council

    Carl Gardner
    July 29, 2009

    Liverpool City council has claimed that the population of the city has now stabilised after decades of decline – but this case last week shows the effects of that decline still cause problems, as the Council had to decide […]

    Tags: education, human rights, judicial review
  • Mrinal Patel case dropped

    Carl Gardner
    July 3, 2009

    Harrow Council has abandoned its prosecution of Mrinal Patel today. No surprise there, then. I expressed myself in moderate terms while criminal proceedings were under way, but summonsing her under the Fraud Act 2006 always looked dodgy – […]

    Tags: crime, education, fraud, local government
  • Mrinal Patel and the Fraud Act 2006

    Carl Gardner
    June 2, 2009

    You may remember that last week Mrs. Patel appeared at Harrow Magistrates’ Court; she’s being prosecuted by Harrow Council under section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006, the accusation being that she gave a false address in order […]

    Tags: crime, education, fraud
  • Collective worship at Meersbrook Bank Primary School

    Carl Gardner
    February 10, 2009

    Like many people my instinctive reaction is to be dismayed at the news that the head teacher of a primary school in Sheffield has resigned after her proposal to end separate Muslim assemblies brought accusations of racism. The […]

    Tags: education, religion
  • Who’s a Jew?

    Carl Gardner
    July 7, 2008

    Munby J gave judgment last Thursday in the Administrative Court in a fascinating case about whether the admissions policy of the Jewish Free School is lawful – the complaint coming from the parents of a boy who was refused […]

    Tags: discrimination, education, religion
  • Ridiculously disporportionate?

    Carl Gardner
    April 11, 2008

    I’m interested in the fact that Poole Borough Council put the Paton family under surveillance because they thought they might have fraudulently applied for a school place for their daughter. I’m also interested in Liberty’s response.

    I feel […]

    Tags: crime, education, human rights
  • An Inconvenient Judgment

    Carl Gardner
    October 11, 2007

    I’m not entirely happy with Burton J’s Administrative Court judgment in Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education, in which he criticised Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth. I think the judgment is an unfortunate exercise in micromanagement of […]

    Tags: education, environment, judicial review
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