Education
Those who educate have one of the most important roles in any civilised society. This means that you need and deserve a service which both acknowledges and complements your responsibilities. This is what Michelmores' Education team is dedicated to providing.
At the heart of everything we do is a commitment to working with you to produce the best outcomes for students.
To achieve this, we promise to:
- Deal with the distractions so that you can get on with the important stuff (providing education)
- Always seek to provide you with a fixed fee to give you cost certainty
- Deal with the complexity rather than creating it
- Provide support and partnership
Our Education solicitors are split into four distinct areas, to ensure that your specific needs can be met by people who understand your particular challenges.
We advise:
- Maintained schools, academies & free schools
- Independent schools
- Further education colleges
- Universities and higher education colleges
We are proud supporters of Education and Employers - a charity which ensures that every school and college has an effective partnership with employers to provide its young people with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential and so to secure the UK’s future prosperity.
The Education Team have been involved in the Free Schools Programme since the first wave of schools opened in 2011. We have now worked with more than 60 applications across the various waves. We are pleased to have been selected as a trusted partner for Premier New School's Intensive Support Programme for free school proposers.
You're there for your students; we're here for you...
Very impressed with their commitment to establishing a long-term relationship.
Chambers 2016
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Get in touch
Antony Power
Partner
Meet the team
Carol McCormack
Partner
James Baker
Partner
Emma Honey
Partner
Chris Hoar
Partner
Sally Rice
Partner
Joanna Damerell
Partner
Charlotte Antoniou
Partner
Russell Holland
Barrister
Tom Stenner-Evans
Senior Associate
Tom Briant-Evans
Associate
Lynne Follett-Carman
Associate
Bethan Jones
Associate
Catherine Fleming
Associate
Nikki Duncan
Consultant Solicitor
Grace Williams
Head of BD
Rosie Phillips
Graduate Member of CILEx
Laura Partridge
Graduate Member of CILEx
Jordan Colledge
Paralegal
Recent experience
- Academy conversion: supporting around 200 academies across the country including the establishment of individual academies, umbrella trusts, multi-academy trusts and multi-academy sponsors.
- Academy post-conversion support: assisting academies in relation to the range of legal issues facing them following conversion.
- Private school: working in partnership with the wider professional team to deliver a significant development of the school’s estate within a tax efficient structure.
- Private school: recovery of fees.
- School: advice on PFI/PPP structures.
- School: advising on third party occupational issues and management of occupation of the estate.
- Free schools: advising in excess of 40 applicants across all of the application rounds to date.
- Free schools: supporting a nationally recognised charity in the establishment of a multi-academy trust to support several applications for special free schools.
- FE Institution: intellectual property spin-out matters and internal intellectual property procedures.
- FE Institution: collaboration agreement, including phased tenancy arrangements between the college and a charity to establish a secondary campus focused around an innovative and dynamic teaching programme.
- FE Institution: advising on a £multi-million disposal of surplus accommodation to a developer including strategic support and complex title issues.
- FE Institution: advising on commercial contracts and procurement of day-to-day services including standard terms and conditions.
- FE Institution: defending a large scale group action relating to the pension rights of part-time workers.
- University: procurement of £133m PPP for the transfer, development and operation of campus student residences.
- University: contentious employment matters, including allegations of breach of contract, wrongful and unfair dismissal, unlawful discrimination and whistleblowing.
- University: procurement of an IT-based HR and payroll system and support services.
