Student granted permission to challenge knife expulsion

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A secondary school student was granted permission to challenge his expulsion for bringing a knife to school in the High Court on 8 April 2019. The student’s appeal had been rejected by a Department of Education committee, which he claims was affected by possible bias because one member attended the school.

Mr Justice Seamus Noonan granted permission on an ex parte basis and made the case returnable later that month. The student seeks to have the committee’s decision quashed and his appeal reconsidered; the challenge had not been finally decided in the report.