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has mediated disputes involving the following issues
in the education sector:
• Claim for payments under joint venture agreement in the adult education and apprenticeships sector.
• Ownership
of IPRs in developed higher-education courses
and materials.
• Dispute
between District Auditor, Academies Trust and Directors
over fees paid to super-head while under local authority
jurisdiction (ie pre-Trust status).
• Dispute
between further education college and learning provider
over learner numbers, administration and contractual
entitlements.
Recent examples include:
• Claim by course provider against Authorised Organisation for contractual negligence in process of obtaining Performance Points from the Department of Education for Accredited courses.
• Claim by provider of transport to special educational needs pupils against local authority following termination for misconduct, including drink-driving, of one of the contractor’s drivers.
• Claim by education provider against supermarket chain
for services provided to staff training scheme, said by the supermarket to be pre-contractual.
Stuart has experience of litigating
and advising on a number
of disputes in the education
sector including the following:
•
Dispute
between Government department and learning providers
following failure of Government funding scheme
for individual
adult learners.
• Advising
university on senior employment disputes.
• Advising
Governors of a Free School in a claim against contractors
under a PFI contract to build a new school.
• Advising
Scottish education authorities following the suspension
of the Individual Learner Account scheme in adult education.
•
Advising
Government department on issues arising out
of post-16
education programme.
• Advising
in relation to the formation of the University
for Industry.
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