Supreme Court: no entitlement to legal representation at disciplinary hearing for teaching assistant
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R (on the application of G) v Governors of X School and Y City Council [2011] IRLR 756 SC (0 other reports)
This decision from the Supreme Court, the highest court in the UK, is the leading decision on whether or not employers must allow employees the right to be accompanied by a lawyer at a disciplinary hearing.
The Supreme Court has held that it was not a breach of a teaching assistant's human rights to refuse him the right to be accompanied by a lawyer at a disciplinary hearing to address an allegation of acting inappropriately towards a pupil.
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