Secondary School appeal. Are they allowed to do this ???!

[Yipee189]

So, I put together my appeal, wrote all my reasons and added all supporting documents.

My questions is - are the school/ admissions authority allowed to see my statements before they wrote theirs ?

I ask because I stupidly sent all my appeal to the school admissions and not the appeal panel. They emailed to let me know of the mistake. But it means they had all my reasons and back up to read before hand .

Now I have an appeal date and the pack has been sent to me. I have read the schools statement and they basically refer to all the points that I have made in my statement.

i feel like they had lots of time to think of a rebuttal to my arguments. If they hadn’t seen my statement then their argument would have been generic like we don’t have space etc but now they make specific points to refuse points I have made :(

can someone please advise me ?

I got the 'other sides' stuff sent to me before my appeal. So that I knew what they were going to say and I didn't have to think of a rebuttal on the spot.

I don't suppose it's a question of whether they are 'allowed' to see it as they couldn't help seeing it.

There is nothing in the Appeals Code to prevent the admission authority seeing your case when you submit it. Even if they hadn't seen it before writing their statement, they would have seen it before the hearing so would have been able to deal with any points you raised when presenting their case.