having a major wobble - off to tribunal in feb - LA due to respond next week. son in school part time, current school cannot meet his needs, evidence is overwhelming. L got their own OT report which is worse than ours - their only evidence is the outreach person who only saw himafter they knew we were going to tribunal and she has wrote he is absolutely fine even though the next day their OT went in and wrote a damning report - did he mysteriously just decline over night? they got his curret teacher to say he was 'fine' head then got teacher to write a letter rebutting it plus the head has also wrote and rebutted it as well.
anyway the people her ewho run a early support meetings have emailed me to say they can no longer help us as we are going to tribunal and the LA have got legal representation - this is the first we have heard that they have a solicitor :-( really hoped they would see sense and agree to our new school. they have put in writing he needs a new school but then done nothing to try and implement it - they are trying now to make the school that cannot meet his needs 'fit' the statement is a wooly as a sheep and not a single thing is quantified or specified - i felt quite hopefull that they would agree to the placement we want but that is looking very unlikely now.
so my question is - how much does legal representation cost? i doubt we would be able to afford it what with the independent report cost plus the cost of calling them as witnesses and we wont qualify for legal aid :-(
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tribunal - how much did your legal representation cost?
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bjkmummy · 23/10/2012 17:40
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