The parents and guardians of 12 children had initially won appeals after they were refused places at Caversham Primary School in Reading.

But Reading Borough Council won a High Court case to have the appeal panel's decision quashed.

Parents will not find out if their new appeals have been successful until just before the new term starts.

The parents of the four-year-olds said they had been through a summer of anxiety and disruption because of the mistakes made by the appeal panel.

The panel had conceded that its members had failed to give sufficient reasons in their decision letters, and that they had also applied the wrong legal test.