Mass legal action threatened over GCSE English results

Pupils hit by changes in grade boundaries join schools and local authorities in bid to force exam boards to regrade June papers Scores of pupils have joined schools and councils in threatening legal action in an attempt to force exam boards to regrade June’s GCSE English papers. A total of 180 pupils,113 schools, 36 local [...]

Public sector protests spark government threat of legal action

Prison officers’ union faces injunction as they join striking civil servants, teachers, health workers and police in day of action Prison officers have been threatened with legal action for holding protest meetings as up to 400,000 public sector employees, including police officers, lecturers and border control staff, stage a day of action against the government [...]

The new legal theory that enables homophobic evangelising in US schools | Katherine Stewart

A campaign funded by the religious right has effectively rewritten the constitutional separation of church and state in education Last month, 8,000 public high school students in Montgomery County, Maryland, went home with fliers informing them that no one is “born gay” and offering therapy if they experienced “unwanted same-sex attraction”. The group behind the [...]

Meeting Legal Clients Where They Want to be Met, Online – With Internet Marketing

Let”s be honest. To many first time clients, the idea of visiting a lawyer may seem a bit like enjoying a root canal. There is nothing fun about it. The client is almost always apprehensive and intimidated. They might like nothing more than to simply vanish. Sure, they have a legal issue they need to [...]

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