No Judicial Review of Private School

Regina v Muntham House School, ex parte R (QBD TLR 26 January)

R, by his father and litigation friend, applied for judicial review of Muntham House School’s decision to exclude him from the school because of disciplinary and other problems. Although most of the fees of the school were paid by a local education authority it was not publicly funded in the sense of receiving grants and had no direct funding nor any arrangement with government as to admission or exclusion, analogous to assisted places schools, and therefore it did not make decisions about pupils that were amenable to judicial review.