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Bangle Wrangle
Law of Education Bulletin 70
18/02/2008
The High Court case brought by Sarika Singh, a 14 year old Sikh pupil at Aberdare Girls' School in South Wales , looks destined for a full hearing later this year.

Birkdale School Sheffield v Revenue and Customs Commissioners. 2008 WL 576834.
Chancery Division (Ch D).

05/03/2008
The provision of a school fees refund scheme by a school to parents was so closely linked with the provision of educational services by the school to the parents as to form, objectively, a single, indivisible economic supply which should not be artificially split for VAT purposes. Appeal allowed.

Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills (now Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families)
[2008] ELR 98 - 115
18/02/2008
Curriculum - Schools - Education Act 1996, ss 406 and 407 - Secretary of State distributing environmental film to all schools - Whether distribution was the promotion of partisan political views - Duty to offer a balanced presentation of opposing views when political issues are brought to the attention of pupils.

HMRC v The Board of Governors of the Robert Gordon University
Tax Journal
18/02/2008
Educational supplies - charitable institutions - trading subsidiaries.

Hourly paid lecturer wins full-time staff rights in landmark ruling
Times Higher Education
13/03/2008
Tribunal says Kaye Carl 'had self-employment thrust upon her' by the University of Sheffield.

University of Sheffield - Part-timer loses fair pay case
Times Higher Education
27/03/2008
An hourly paid lecturer, Kaye Carl, has lost the second round of her legal case against the University of Sheffield for unfair treatment as a part-time worker.


 

 




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