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ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
KINGS BENCH DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE COURT
Mr. Neil Cameron KC sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge
AC-2025-LON-002221 Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London, WC2A 2LL
Before :
LORD JUSTICE ARNOLD
LADY JUSTICE ELISABETH LAING
and
LORD JUSTICE EDIS
Between :
THE KING (on the application of SAG by her litigation friend ERG) | Appellant |
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THE GOVERNING BODY OF WINCHMORE SCHOOL | Respondent |
Ollie Persey (instructed by Bindmans LLP) for the Appellant
Paul Greatorex (instructed by Enfield Legal Services) for the Respondent
Hearing dates : 18 September 2025
Approved Judgment
This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 21 October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.
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- Lord Justice Edis
- Introduction
- Permanent exclusion
- Reasons and recording exclusions
- Guidance on considering the reinstatement of a suspended or permanently excluded pupil
- Part twelve: The governing board’s duty to reconsider reinstatement following a review
- Guidance on the governing board’s duty to reconsider reinstatement following a review
- “Policy Statement
- “ Pupils are responsible for
- “Fixed term suspensions
- “Permanent exclusion
- The misconduct
- The exclusion decision
- The First GDC Decision, meeting on 3 March and letter of 6 March
- Panel deliberations
- Outcome from further discussions between the panel and the Headteacher
- The Independent Review Panel (IRP)
- Reasons for the panel's decision
- The panel's consideration of procedural impropriety
- The panel's consideration of the other grounds
- Points to consider upon reconsideration
- The GDC Reconsideration
- Permanent Exclusion 2 nd Limb Criteria
- Panel's Reconsidered decision
- The Grounds of Challenge that decision and the Grounds of Appeal to this court
- “The Grounds of Challenge
- The Grounds of Appeal (“the Grounds”) are as follows
- The judge’s judgment
- How should the Grounds of Appeal be understood?
- Discussion and analysis Introduction
- Ground 2: Lawful application of the Behaviour Policy
- Ground 3: the standard of review
- The finding that SAG committed burglary
- The unreasonable failure adequately to consider alternative sections
- Conclusions