Leaving Cert 2020 – The Legal Fall-Out Continues ..
In the last few weeks, we have seen the Courts issue two significant judgements in relation to discrete issues that arose from the controversial calculated grades system that was applied to the beleaguered Leaving Cert class of 2020.
High Court Rules Against Student Who Challenged Amended Leaving Certificate Grading System
After a protracted case that involved 5 weeks of Court time over a two-month period, Freddy Sherry, a past pupil of Belvedere College Dublin has lost his High Court legal action to have the revised Calculated Grades system that was applied to his Leaving Certificate results of 2020 deemed unlawful.
Brian Gill on Today FM: What Will Record High Leaving Cert Results Mean For Course Points?
This year’s Leaving Cert students have received the best results on record, with average grade inflation of 4.4% after the calculated grading system was used.
Leaving Cert 2020: The Leaving Cert …. but not as we know it
For the first time in the history of the State, students did not sit their Leaving Cert in June in the traditional format. Instead a new system of “calculated grades” was devised.
Man awarded €1.1m over wrongful arrest on same night fiancée beaten in street attack
See RTE News Report 29 July 2019.
Brian Gill talks to Pat Kenny on Newstalk 106 regarding Compensation Cases
In the past few weeks a woman was awarded €20,000 for banging her knee off a table leg that happened to be covered by a table cloth in a hotel.
BBC apologises for Graham Norton gaffe that Terry Prone had affair with Charlie Haughey
The Sunday Independent understands that legal correspondence has been sent by Ms Prone, through the top legal firm Callan Tansey,
High Court finds that accountant deceived brothers over site purchase
A HIGH COURT judge has found that three brothers suffered losses because an accountant deliberately deceived them
Sex abuser told to pay Euro 50,000 to get appeal
A WOMAN found by the High Court to have been sexually abused as a child for seven years by her Irish dancing teacher must be paid €50,000 out of the €400,000 award
Filmmaker settles libel case after RTE issues an apology
A FILMMAKER has welcomed an apology from RTE for “unfair and incorrect” claims made about her in a programme broadcast on Radio na Gaeltachta almost two years ago.