Dad wins fees case ... but will he see cash?
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A MAN has been awarded 230,000 yuan (US$37,030) compensation for fees he paid for his daughter to attend a cramming school that then closed months later.
But it is uncertain whether the man, surnamed He, will ever see the cash.
Yisi Training, a private education school chain with around 30 branches in Shanghai, closed suddenly last year and its founder disappeared.
Some parents and former staff took legal action against Yisi’s local agency, Shanghai Jixue technical consulting company.
Yesterday, Yangpu District People’s Court announced that He should be refunded his school fees by Jixue.
But Jixue has also closed and its two shareholders cannot be traced.
This was among the some 17 cases related to Yisi Training the court handled since the chain folded last November.
Seven were brought by the parents of children studying at Yisi, while in the remaining cases the plaintiffs are staff who hadn’t been paid, the court said.
He paid Yisi more than 260,000 yuan in June last year when the school promised to help his daughter, a high school senior, pass the college entrance examination and enroll at Nanjing University.
But the cramming school closed only five months later, leaving parents and unpaid teachers in lurch.
The founder was suspected of having fled with payment fees and has not been tracked down.
He brought a lawsuit against agent Shanghai Jixue technical consulting company and its two shareholders, demanding a refund and compensation for Yisi’s default.
The court confirmed the default, but said there was no evidence that Jixue’s two partners personally benefited.
The court ruled Jixie should pay He a refund of 230,000 yuan, although the company has closed and its partners cannot now be traced.
One teacher, surnamed Wang, who served as the acting principal of a Yisi school, was awarded 10,000 yuan for wages between June and November last year.
However, as with He, it is unclear whether Wang will get the cash.
This uncertainty has seen other parents and ex-teachers withdraw their lawsuits for the time being.
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