Victoria Denis

Solicitor, Doyle Clayton

Victoria is an education law solicitor with a primary focus on further and higher education. She has extensive experience handling cases involving academic and non-academic misconduct, fitness to practice, PhD supervision, degree classification, fee disputes, and exclusions.

Victoria's expertise includes the Equality Act 2010, particularly discrimination on the basis of disability, sex, sexual orientation, race, and gender reassignment. Victoria has guided students through university complaints procedures and appeals process to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator, and has litigated matters up to the Court of Appeal. Victoria also advises parents on a range of school-related issues, including discrimination, bullying, safeguarding, gender questioning, special educational needs, and exclusions.

Victoria is a contributing author to The Law of Education, covering chapters on Negligence, Contractual Liability, and Equalities. She is a member of the Education Law Association. Victoria has contributed to research undertaken by The Times and ITV on the landscape of sexual misconduct cases at universities and how, institutionally, processes could be improved.

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Accidents in schools—liability in tort

Practice Notes

This Practice Note mentions that children are often injured at school without any fault on the part of any person, and goes on to discuss case law illustrating the factors that may distinguish a successful claim against a school or its owners from an unsuccessful claim. These factors are a duty of care, vicarious liability, contributory negligence, foreseeable consequences, causation and proximity, the age, disposition and mental capacity of the child, the level of supervision expected in a school and the extent to which the child was at the material time under the care or control of the school.

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