A High Court judge has thrown out a headteacher’s appeal against a teaching ban for bullying in a case that was said by one union to be a sign of the misconduct regulator “failing”.
Mahzia ‘Pepe’ Hart, former headteacher of Trinity Church School in Radstock, Somerset, appealed a prohibition order banning her from working in the profession for at least two years.
Last year, the general secretary of the NAHT union, Paul Whiteman, said he had “significant concerns” over the case, adding “every week gives us cause for concern that the TRA [Teaching Regulation Agency] is a failing regulator”.
But Mr Justice Eyre dismissed Hart’s appeal in a judgement published last Friday following a two-day hearing at London’s High Court in November.
