Swanwick Murray Roche have provided education industry legal services to kindergartens, outside school hours care centres, schools, colleges and universities since about 1960. In that time, we have developed our expertise to be a leading provider of education law services in Queensland and Australia.
We can assist and advise on all manner of legal issues faced by educational institutions including (but not limited to):
- Custody, family law and parent disputes;
- Excluding disruptive parents and others from school grounds;
- Staffing & employment issues;
- Governance, legal structures & constitutions;
- Enrolment contracts, processes & disputes;
- Privacy & information sharing, mandatory reporting issues;
- Educational negligence;
- Property (acquisitions, disposals, leasing, licensing, easements);
- Risk management & insurance;
- Legislation advice;
- Policy & procedure development work;
- Provision of counselling services in school;
- Child protection advice;
- Complaint investigation & handling work;
- Service & supply agreement reviews & negotiation assistance;
- Discrimination issues;
- Advice and review of decisions regarding student entry, academic failure, academic exclusion, academic misconduct and general misconduct;
- other matters.
