The Industrial Cases Reports
[2025] ICR 211
King’s Bench Division
Rex (Aquilina)
v
Secretary of State for Education
[2024] EWHC 1998 (Admin)
2024 June 18; Aug 1
Cotter J
Education— Teacher— Disciplinary action— Claimant head teacher wrongly sharing confidential information about pupils— Professional conduct panel finding claimant’s actions not unacceptable professional conduct but conduct that might bring profession into disrepute— Whether two limbs of statutory provision mutually exclusive— Whether professional conduct falling to be considered within second limb— Whether second limb requiring conduct to be serious—
Education Act 2002 (c 32), s 141B(1)(a), (2)
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Teachers’ Disciplinary (England) Regulations 2012 (SI 2012/560), reg 7(5)