He recently acted for a well - known independent
school in its successful defence of a disability discrimination claim by a former pupil in the First - Tier Tribunal, and he acted for the successful
defendant in Oldbury Academy v Sandwell MBC (High Court, 2013), a dispute about a
local authority's funding obligations towards a
school that had become an academy.
Listed by both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 as a leading junior in the field, Jonathan represents and advises both claimants and
defendants (
local authorities, Academies and independent
schools) in the full range of education matters.