Cases

Webster & Ors v The Governors of the Ridgway Foundation School

Facts

C1 was a pupil who had been assaulted at school. He was white and his assailants, all of whom were convicted of wounding with intent, were a group of Asian children and adults. The other Cs were C1’s family who claimed to have suffered PTSD. The Cs issued proceedings against the Ds on the grounds that they had been negligent in failing to maintain proper disciplinary standards or to take proper care for pupils' security, including in particular allowing racial tensions to develop, which he claimed had led to the assault.

As part of its standard disclosure, the Ds had allowed inspection of documents with names of pupils had been redacted. Cs sought specific disclosure of unredacted copies of those documents and disclosure of a computerised system referred to in witness statements that had been used to record pupil misbehaviour.

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