Now You Can Sue Them

Govt UK admits it and Councils were in breach of statutory education duties

As I wrote of Simon Dolan’s legal challenge to the Lockdown in WORLDS ENDS: Coronavirus, Frankenstein and Other Monsters, Chapter 9 Anarchy in The UK: “This is one of the most important legal documents to have been written this century.”

The legal challenge has already forced the release of bombshell SAGE Minutes, which prove the claim that the 23 March Lockdown was “following the science” to be a lie.

Now the response of Govt UK lawyers to Simon Dolan’s legal challenge has detonated another nuclear device, an airburst over the Schools Lockdown catastrophe.

School closures was a request not a direction, now claims Government lawyers.

On 14 June, Simon released on his Twitter feed part of the letter sent by Govt UK lawyers.

Not “direction” but a “request”.

That’s not what the Prime Minister said on 18 March 2020:

So looking at the curve of the disease and looking at where we are now – we think now that we must apply downward pressure, further downward pressure on that upward curve by closing the schools.

So I can announce today and Gavin Williamson making statement now in House of Commons that after schools shut their gates from Friday afternoon, they will remain closed for most pupils – for the vast majority of pupils- until further notice. I will explain what I mean by the vast majority of pupils.

That’s not what Secretary of State Williamson said in Parliament on 18 March 2020:

The Govt UK legal wriggle has just shoved Gavin Williamson out of the frying pan and into the fire of endless potential lawsuits. Together with every Local Authority.

Section 10 Education Act 1996 means that Secretary of State Gavin Williamson has breached his statutory duty.

He clearly cannot comply with a duty to promote education, by closing schools.

The Coronavirus Act 2020 did give the Secretary of State power to make a “direction”:

But only from 25 March 2020.

From 18 March 2020, what Williamson’s lawyers now call a “request” was an unlawful request. As the amending legislation shows, it could not on any basis be a request. It has, on law, to be a “direction”.

The contradictions in Govt UK’s legal wriggling mount.

What is now certain is this:

Anyone who now wishes to sue Sec State Williamson, or a Local Authority, for school closures has a firm legal case.

So sue, sue and keep on suing. Use the rule of law to protect our schools and society against this Cabinet of covidiots.