Expertise/experience
Yvonne heads the Pastoral team within the Education Department at Veale Wasbrough Vizards. Yvonne specialises in all areas of education law, advising schools and local authorities on child protection, admissions and pupil expulsions, parent complaints, school uniform, discrimination law, special education needs, governance, incident management, public law and human rights.
Yvonne is co-author of three books on education law and her articles and comment on education are frequently published in the national press and journals including Education Law Update, Independent Education Today, Solicitors Journal, the Law Society Gazette, Education Public Law and the Individual, and Legal Action Group. Yvonne is invited to speak at conferences and seminars all over the country.
In 2004 Yvonne was named Lawyer in the News in the Law Society Gazette following her representation in the High Court of Shabina Begum. In 2007 her work developing innovative community legal services was recognised through two major national awards: Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Award (winner, solicitors organisation category), and the Law Society's Excellence Awards (runner-up).
