Karen May
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Education: Individuals
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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 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 May is a big player in education."
"Karen has a strong sense of strategy and is good with clients."
"She is vastly experienced and has a lovely manner about her."
"Karen is just really practical and pragmatic in getting a good solution. She is an expert on education and really knows the subject inside and out."
"Karen is a great advisor."
"Karen May is a big player in education."
"Karen has a strong sense of strategy and is good with clients."
"She is vastly experienced and has a lovely manner about her."
"Karen is just really practical and pragmatic in getting a good solution. She is an expert on education and really knows the subject inside and out."
"Karen is a great advisor."
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