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WEST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL v C (2013)

PUBLISHED April 30, 2013
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The magistrates' court had erred in law in concluding that the chaotic lifestyle of a 15-year-old girl who failed to attend school was an "unavoidable cause" which preventing her attendance and gave her mother a defence to an offence under the Education Act 1996 s.444(1).

DC (Hallett LJ, Burnett J)

30/04/2013

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