EJ Winter & Son LLP: court cases and practice areas

Practice areas

Public and administrative law13
Professional discipline and regulation2

Courts

Court of Appeal (Civil Division)4
High Court9

Counsel most often instructed

Aileen McColgan5
Sam Grodzinski3

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Cases later courts cite most

Cases EJ Winter & Son LLP acted in that later judgments cite most often.

Date	Case	Cited by
27 Oct 2011	Maxwell, R (on the application of) v The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education [2011] EWCA Civ 1236 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) An independent higher-education complaints reviewer is not required to adjudicate disputed legal rights or make a formal finding of disability discrimination.…	17
23 May 2013	Mustafa, R (on the application of) v The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education [2013] EWHC 1379 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court The exclusion of complaints concerning academic judgment from the jurisdiction of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator applies only to the extent that the…	4
13 Nov 2018	St George's, University of London v Rafique-Aldawery, R (On the Application Of) [2018] EWCA Civ 2520 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Judicial review is a remedy of last resort where a suitable alternative remedy exists. The Office of the Independent Adjudicator scheme is such a remedy for…	4
6 Feb 2015	Gopikrishna, R (on the application of) v The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education & Ors [2015] EWHC 207 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court The statutory exclusion for academic judgement does not protect every decision made by an academic institution. It applies only to the extent that the…	3

Recent cases

Date	Case	Cited by
31 Jul 2024	KT, R (on the application of) v Office of the Independent Adjudicator [2024] EWHC 2003 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court A complaint outcome issued by the Office of the Independent Adjudicator is a discrete decision on the merits, distinct from later recommendations. A claimant…
13 Nov 2018	St George's, University of London v Rafique-Aldawery, R (On the Application Of) [2018] EWCA Civ 2520 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Judicial review is a remedy of last resort where a suitable alternative remedy exists. The Office of the Independent Adjudicator scheme is such a remedy for…	4
30 Jul 2018	B, R (On the Application Of) v The Office of the Independent Adjudicator [2018] EWHC 1971 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court The question whether proceedings relate to the subject matter of a qualifying complaint under the Higher Education Act 2004 is an objective question of…	1
17 Jan 2018	Thilakawardhana, R (on the application of) v Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education & Anor [2018] EWCA Civ 13 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) In reviewing a university fitness-to-practise decision, the court must respect the specialist judgment of the panel and must not substitute its own view merely…	1
13 Nov 2015	Thilakawardhana v The Office of the Independent Adjudicator [2015] EWHC 3285 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Judicial review of a student-complaints review body requires a cautious approach. The court asks whether the decision was one which no reasonable…
6 Feb 2015	Gopikrishna, R (on the application of) v The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education & Ors [2015] EWHC 207 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court The statutory exclusion for academic judgement does not protect every decision made by an academic institution. It applies only to the extent that the…	3
5 Mar 2014	Wilson, R (on the application of) v The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education & Anor [2014] EWHC 558 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court Judicial review of an OIA decision is concerned with legality and rationality, not a rehearing of the underlying academic or factual dispute. The OIA has a…
23 May 2013	Mustafa, R (on the application of) v The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education [2013] EWHC 1379 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court The exclusion of complaints concerning academic judgment from the jurisdiction of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator applies only to the extent that the…	4
6 Feb 2013	Burger v Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education [2013] EWHC 172 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court An error of fact in an adjudication will justify judicial review only if it is material to the outcome. Where the complaint would inevitably have been…
21 Dec 2011	Sandhar, R (on the application of) v Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education & Anor [2011] EWCA Civ 1614 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) An ombudsman scheme funded by participating institutions is not thereby insufficiently independent. The question is whether a fair-minded and informed observer…	1
27 Oct 2011	Maxwell, R (on the application of) v The Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education [2011] EWCA Civ 1236 · Court of Appeal (Civil Division) An independent higher-education complaints reviewer is not required to adjudicate disputed legal rights or make a formal finding of disability discrimination.…	17
23 Jul 2010	Maxwell, R (on the application of) v The Office of the Independent Adjudicator & Anor [2010] EWHC 1889 (Admin) · High Court: Administrative Court The Office of the Independent Adjudicator may consider disability discrimination law when deciding whether a higher education institution acted fairly and…

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