Simpson Millar

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Simpson Millar recently represented a 12-year-old boy from East Sussex whose family was awarded £7,000 in costs and school fees after they were forced to take legal action to secure funding for a place in a specialist school to meet his educational needs. He has autism and a language disorder, and a mainstream secondary school to which he was originally sent admitted that it could not meet his needs. A tribunal ruled that East Sussex county council was legally obliged to fund his school place.

It was also instructed by the family of Stacey MacDonald, 43, who died in a Nottingham hostel of a drug overdose three days after her release from prison. The coroner concluded that there were failings in the care she received in prison and after her release. While none of these failings directly contributed to MacDonald’s death, the coroner found that elements of her care were “inappropriate”.