Two teachers who worked at the school at the centre of the Trojan Horse scandal have overturned their lifetime bans from the classroom.
Inamulhaq Anwar (pictured) and Akeel Ahmed – both formerly of Park View School in Alum Rock – overturned the orders on appeal as a judge accused the teachers’ standards watchdog of “serious procedural irregularity”.
The Department of Education said it was “disappointed” by the decision and intended to ask for a re-hearing.
Giving his ruling in Birmingham, Mr Justice Stephen Phillips voiced “considerable doubt” about the fairness of the National College for Teaching and Leadership hearing which imposed the bans in February.
The panel concluded that both men had agreed to the inclusion of “an undue amount of religious influence in pupils’ education” at the school, now called Rockwood Academy.
Park View - part of the now defunct Park View Educational Trust - was at the centre of anonymous allegations which claimed there was a wider plot by Muslim hard-liners to take control of several Birmingham schools.
