May 27, 2005
Legal proceedings were issued against the Catholic Education Service and the trustees and governing body of Plater College, Oxford in the High Court, Birmingham, this Friday afternoon.
The claimant is The Plater College Foundation, the group opposed to the decision to close the college that was taken in February of this year.
in the High Court, Birmingham
Also sued, are the Catholic Education Service and its CEO, Oona Stannard and a member of its legal staff, Martin Bradshaw, along with 14 present and former members of the Governing Body of Plater College, Oxford.
The claimants are protesting the closure of Plater College, Oxford, of which the four Roman Catholic archbishops are trustees.
Counsel for the Foundation, John Rhys-Burgess, who is himself a former Plater College student, said:
"No valid reasons for closing the College have ever been given. On the contrary, the stated reasons for the closure were in our view, manifestly false, misleading, self-serving and pretextual."
The action questions the validity of the appointment of the governing body, seeks to halt the closure plan and to replace the trustees and governors of the college
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RCs do what RCs want to do
03.06.2005 23:59
Antichrist
Why force
06.06.2005 16:47
simon
Closure is to prevent another sex scandal
13.06.2005 12:47
Peter Gough
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One of many failings of Church involvement
14.06.2005 11:33
To add insult to injury Plater accepted this girl knowing full well that she could not, in any case, successfully apply to any University as they had promised
simply because on entering Plater she was 16 years old and 17 on completion of her course. This, co-incidetally is below the Colleges mandate of age requirement of 20 years old and over. This girl was not the only student to ber hoodwinked by false promises.
The question of the Catholic churches involvement with Plater College is, at best, tenous. The Catholic church do not fund Plater and never have. The property and land it stands on was funded by individual and public subscription. The title refering to the College as being Catholic is purely arbitary and was adopted in reverence to the founder Father Plater in 1923, I believe, at a separate site in Oxford.. Ialso believe this paved the way for the College being registered as a Charity. Other than that The College owes no allegiance to the Catholic church although the Trustees are prominent Catholic clergymen who are now trying to sell off the College assets and take possession of the money generated.
The College is under investigation by variously The Oxford Trading Standards, The Police, The Department of Immigration, The DFES et al. One of the firm of College Solicitors is under investigation, for mis-conduct, by The Law Society .
The suing of the College Trustee's and Governing body is justified as is my effort on behalf of the Chinese student. Grave in-justice's has been allowed to flourish in the name of a noble educational institution bythe un-scrupulous, and self-serving, Plater College heirachy.
Joseph Hall
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Re: Plater College, Oxford
19.06.2005 13:00
to be very, very, interesting! In addition, I wonder if the Governors, Trustees and others
who share a similar interest in the reputable institution are taking notes?
Andrew
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