Victoria Denis

Solicitor | London (City)

Victoria is an education law solicitor with a primary focus on further and higher education. She has extensive experience handling cases involving academic and non-academic misconduct, fitness to practice, PhD supervision, degree classification, fee disputes, and exclusions.

Victoria's expertise includes the Equality Act 2010, particularly discrimination on the basis of disability, sex, sexual orientation, race, and gender reassignment. Victoria has guided students through university complaints procedures and appeals process to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator, and has litigated matters up to the Court of Appeal.

Victoria also advises parents on a range of school-related issues, including discrimination, bullying, safeguarding, gender questioning, special educational needs, and exclusions.

Victoria is a contributing author to The Law of Education, covering chapters on Negligence, Contractual Liability, and Equalities. She is a member of the Education Law Association. Victoria has contributed to research undertaken by The Times and ITV on the landscape of sexual misconduct cases at universities and how, institutionally, processes could be improved.