
Karen May
About
Provided by Karen May
Practice Areas
Partner and Head of Education Law.
Karen mainly acts for individuals, but also has experience of acting for local authorities and schools.
Her specialism is judicial review cases, with a particular focus upon education law and community care law judicial reviews. Karen has acted in many leading education law judicial review cases in the High Court and Court of Appeal.
Karen’s main focus is acting for vulnerable children and adults. This has seen her acting for a number of families in relation to special educational needs issues during childhood right through to Court of Protection matters in adulthood. She has also acted in challenges against a wide variety of public bodies, such as CCGs and Chief Constables.
Karen has also acted in a number of cases concerning breaches under the Human Rights Act 1998 and discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. She has secured favourable financial settlements for clients in a number of these cases.
Career
Karen joined Bindmans LLP in 2019.
Professional Memberships
Law Society Accredited Practitioner: Mental Capacity (Welfare); Education Law Association.
Publications
Karen co-authored “Education Law & Practice” by Lexis Nexis - a leading textbook on education law (both the 3rd and 4th (2016) edition).
Chambers Review
UK
Karen May of Bindmans LLP frequently acts for vulnerable children and adults in a variety of education and community care cases. She primarily focuses on judicial reviews concerning Education, Health and Care plans and has additional experience in cases concerning safeguarding and exclusion.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Karen is amazing, I cannot rate her highly enough. She makes what is a very hard situation more manageable."
"A prompt and professional service is given at all times. I would highly recommend Karen."
"Karen is a great advocate for her clients and works very well within the wider multidisciplinary team at Bindmans."
"Karen is friendly, efficient and caring."
"Karen is amazing, I cannot rate her highly enough. She makes what is a very hard situation more manageable."
"A prompt and professional service is given at all times. I would highly recommend Karen."
"Karen is a great advocate for her clients and works very well within the wider multidisciplinary team at Bindmans."
"Karen is friendly, efficient and caring."
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