18/04/2013

Teen Loses School Place Injunction

The social education a teenage girl with mental health difficulties is “gravely deficient" due to her being out of school for more than a year, a judge has said.

Despite this at the High Court Ms Justice Iseult O'Malley ruled that the teen was not entitled to a mandatory injunction directing the State to provide her with an appropriate educational placement.

The judge said the argument that the girl’s lack of a school placement was harming her development did not suffice for the order of the type sought.

Counsel for the girl, Mark De Blacam, said his client's father intends to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.

(H/CD)


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