School wins appeal over entry bias [IrishTimes]
- Published: 25 July 2011
A Co Tipperary secondary school has successfully appeal against an Equality Tribunal ruling that it indirectly discriminated against Travellers when it refused a Traveller child admission.
Judge Tom Teehan allowed the appeal by the CBS High School, Secondary School, Clonmel against the decision of the Equality Tribunal that it should offer John Stokes s a place and review its admission policy to ensure that it did not indirectly discriminate against any child.
John (13), through his mother Mary and instructed by the Irish Traveller Movement Independent Law Centre, lodged the complaint against the school on the grounds that it had breached the Equal Status Act.
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