On a previous excursion he had had a hypoglycaemic attack - his first - linked to his diabetes. The school didn't want a repeat, so he was bounced from the list.
A year-and-a-half later, the school paid him 3,000 in damages. The judge at Preston County Court found that the Clitheroe Royal Grammar School's decision was "fatally flawed in the manner in which it was taken". It breached the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), which makes it illegal to discriminate unfairly against disabled people.
That was 2000. Oddly enough, Tom White only won his case because the trip was an activity, not an educational event. Back then, education was excluded from the DDA.
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