Jul 10, 2018 | Regulation
The importance of Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014 When it announced reforms to the local arrangements governing educational provision for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) the Government undertook to make children and young...
Oct 13, 2016 | Children, Education, Regulation
Professor Toby Seddon, Head of the School of Law and prior to entering academia and a Professor of Criminology at the School, spent 10 years as a researcher in the voluntary sector, working in the areas of penal reform, criminal justice, drug policy and homelessness....
Aug 2, 2016 | Adminstrative Justice, Blog, Children, Family Law, Law, Regulation
Our latest blog post compares international responses to corporal punishment and highlights the complexities of what many perceive as simply a two-sided debate. On the 3 June, Yamato Tanooka, a 7 year-old Japanese boy, was found in a military shelter after six...
Jul 26, 2016 | Blog, Children, Education, Family Law, Law, Regulation
Parents of school-age children know all too well that family holiday prices have a tendency to sky rocket during school holiday periods. Most also know, or thought they did, that they could be fined if they took their children out of school, without good reason. ...
Jul 14, 2016 | Blog, EU Law, Law, Public Law, Regulation
In this blog Professor Robert Thomas discusses why England voted to leave the EU and the questions Brexit poses for the constitution. In his magisterial history of England, Robert Tombs notes that, following the 2014 Scottish Referendum, there would surely be greater...
Apr 29, 2016 | Criminal justice, Regulation
Ahead of Black Lawyers Matter, a public meeting hosted by the University of Manchester, we present an analysis of the backgrounds of students attending the University and compare it to that of other institutions . The analysis below compares the BME profile of...
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