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08 September 2017
Issue: 7760 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Education

R (on the application of Durand Academy Trust) v Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills [2017] EWHC 2097 (Admin), [2017] All ER (D) 61 (Aug)

The absence of any ability effectively to challenge the defendant Ofsted’s report, adjudging the claimant school to be inadequate and recommending that it be placed into special measures, rendered the complaints procedures unfair and vitiated the report. Accordingly, the Administrative Court quashed the report.

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