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Ruling due on school 'exclusion' Families win school places battle
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Three schoolgirls will find out later if they have won a High Court battle to get into a Londonderry school. The families of three schoolgirls have won a legal battle to get their children into a Londonderry school.
The pupils' parents applied for a judicial review of their exclusion from St Cecilia's College after they had been allocated places. The pupils' parents applied for a judicial review of their exclusion from St Cecilia's College in the city after they had been allocated places.
The hearing heard claims that pupils, who had moved to County Donegal, had secured grammar school places to the exclusion of local children. The court heard some families were living in Donegal but using the addresses of grandparents to secure grammar school places.
The practice is known as "grannying". It is alleged that it is widespread. A High Court judge ruled a failure to check addresses was a mistake.
The review will decide if a duty exists to find out if addresses provided for individual children are false. The practice is known as "grannying".
The legal process began after the three girls were offered places at the Northland Road school but these were withdrawn when the Department of Education refused to increase the admissions cap of 130.
Their school uniforms had already been bought and for the past two weeks their education had been in limbo pending the outcome of the case.
Outside the court, the father of one of the girls said that he was "over the moon, overjoyed."
He said it would mean that his daughter will now be able to get to sleep at night as she had spent the nights crying.
The father added that it was now a matter for the various school authorities to deal with the issue of false addresses.