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There is an interesting post by Catherine Wilson on Halsbury’s Law Exchange concerning the Government’s announcement that it intends to make it easier to dismiss inadequate teachers.
According to last weeks’ press coverage, schools are to be given new powers to weed out incompetent teachers and enforce “rigorous” standards to ensure performance is maintained. However, behind the headlines these proposals may be less far reaching in practice than they at first appear. Poor performance is generally a fair reason for dismissal, irrespective of the business or organisation. However, in practice it is one of the most difficult processes for any employer to ...
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Teachers accused of crime are given lifelong anonymity
A Press release issued by the PA on the 17 November 2011 states
Proposals to give lifelong anonymity to teachers accused of committing criminal offences against children at their schools have become law after the Education Act 2011 received Royal Assent.
It means that teachers have become the first group of people in British legal history to be given automatic anonymity when they are accused of a criminal offence.
The anonymity ends only if the teacher is charged with a criminal offence, or a court agrees to an application that it is in the interests of ...
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According to an article in the Daily Mail (1st May 2011) written by Angela Levin an expert Neuropathologist, Dr Squier, believes that at least half of all parents tried over shaken baby syndrome have been wrongly convicted. Read more
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Extract from Law Commission Web site
Regulation of Healthcare Professionals
The regulatory framework governing the health- and social-care professions has become complex and expensive and requires continual Government intervention to keep it up to date. On 16 February 2011, the Government announced a review of the framework, referring the project to the Law Commission. Accepting the project, Frances Patterson QC, Law Commissioner for Public Law, said:
“The Law Commission is pleased to be conducting this review of the regulatory regime that governs the work and conduct of healthcare and social care professionals. The existing legislative ...
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This is an extract from a news report on the BBC website
Thousands of sex offenders in England and Wales are set to be given the right to appeal against having to register with the police for life.
Home Secretary Theresa May said the government would make the “minimum possible changes” to comply with a 2010 Supreme Court ruling.
She said ministers were “appalled” by the ruling and the bar for appeals would be set as “high as possible”.
Sex offenders will only be able to appeal 15 years after leaving prison.
The Supreme Court ruled that denying offenders the right ...
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