Three high court judges have rejected a legal challenge over the government’s policy of adding VAT to private school fees. Lawyers representing families and private schools at the High Court judicial review hearings had argued that the policy was discriminatory and in breach of human rights law. Julie Robinson, chief executive of the Independent Schools...
The government’s policy of adding VAT to private school fees will “interfere with the fundamental right to education”, the High Court has heard. In front of a packed court room, with headteachers and students in school uniforms listening from the public gallery, Lord David Pannick KC, argued the policy is discriminatory. The legal challenge is...