I stand corrected and do agree, Aviation Pacific are not on the CAA website as an approved JAA school. They do have a couple of Italian JAA instructors there and you can sit the JAA exams there as part of CATS at Camarillo college which I am hoping will save me a flight to Gatwick airport at somepoint.
American Aviation Academy (formerly Anglo American) is a JAA approved school and I did complete my JAA PPL with them as well as my night rating a couple of years ago. I recomended it to a friend of mine recently who completed his night rating there in November. There is one man there who is British and their examiner who is great and knows all the regs inside and out but he is not part of the day to day running of the place.
Unfortunately with the name change came a new owner who is full of himself, chaotic and is running it into the ground, it's just not the same since Chris Watson left...