Conflict over educational rights.
Though a recent school negligence claim is unlikely to be a trail-blazer, it serves to highlight the ever-increasing incidences of education-based claims.
When the House of Lords gave judgment in Phelps v London Borough ofHillingdon (2000), concern was voiced in the insurance field that it would
be followed by a dramatic increase in claims against schools. This
prediction proved to be correct but until now those claims have
predominantly related to bullying or failure to identify special
educational needs.
In Phelps, the Lords expressed confidence they would not be opening the
door to a flood of cases based on poor quality teaching and general
undera
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