Education
"Leathes Prior provides an excellent, prompt and professional service; it is incredibly difficult to find any fault."
[Legal 500 2011]
Leathes Prior acts for several local education institutions. Our solicitors spend time getting to know you and understanding how your organisation works so that we can deliver the support you need and help you to achieve your objections. A number of our solicitors, for example, are governors at local schools.
Our Education team has a wealth of specific experience in the sector – providing comprehensive advice in the following areas:
- employment advice in the form of drafting Contracts of Employment and Policies; dealing with disciplinary and grievance situations; and restructuring
- defending discrimination claims (both physical and mental impairments), challenges to suspensions or exclusions, as well as challenges to a school's admissions decisions. We are able to advise schools both on the defence of claims and on the documentation and procedures (Admissions Policies, Appeals Policies etc) that can help to ward off claims
- debt collection – we have extensive experience of recovering fees for schools
- joint ventures and consortiums
- mergers – for instance, the merger between Langley School and Thorpe House School
- property matters and construction projects
- charity and trust issues
- health and safety
- commercial contracts
- IP protection – and spin out vehicles
If you have any enquiries, please contact Martin Plowman or Dan Chapman – or alternatively please call us on 01603 610911.
