Three separate challenges to Leaving Cert grade standardisation

When all three cases were mentioned before Mr Justice Charles Meenan today, he was asked to fix a hearing date in late October

Wed, 23 Sep, 2020 - 18:36

Ann O’Loughlin

A High Court judge has said a “lead” case concerning standardisation of 2020 Leaving Cert grades will be heard next month only if lawyers agree which of three separate cases brought over standardisation will be that lead case.

One of the cases is by Freddy Sherry, a Leaving Cert student at Dublin’s Belvedere College. He claims the minister for education’s “interference” last August with the work of the Independent Steering Committee on Calculated Grades, directing it not to rely on previous school data or schools historic records in the standardisation process, lead to him being unfairly downgraded by 55 points in his Leaving Cert this year.