Every so often, legal firms pop up purporting to be able to pursue “class action”-style claims on behalf of students who’ve faced common problems with the delivery of their course, like industrial action.
Most of the time they amount to little – and in fact instead the firms seem to have been using the sign-ups to cream off lucrative Equality Act 2010 claims on a no win, no fee basis.
So I was sceptical when I first came across the so-called Student Group Claim that has been doing the rounds in the aftermath of Covid-19 and its myriad restrictions on in-person teaching.
But over the months, it’s become clear that this one is serious. For a sense of the thrust of the case(s) and the approach, it’s worth a look at the piece that Ryan Dunleavy, a Partner at law firm Harcus Parker, wrote for us back in February.
