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A young woman from Cork who scored 613 points on the 2019 Leaving Certificate has dropped her Superior Court challenge over how Leaving Cert grades were standardized this year after earning a place in her chosen course.
Martha Woods, who claimed that standardization had an unfair impact on her ambition to pursue a career in dentistry, has withdrawn her case because she has since secured a place in her chosen course, dentistry at UCC.
In her case, Ms. Woods, Millbrook House, Murragh, Enniskeane, Co Cork, had said that points for dentistry at UCC increased this year from 590 points to 613, final applicants for that course had 613 points, places were They randomized selection and couldn’t get a spot.
When his action came before Judge Charles Meenan last week, he accepted that it was a “very important” matter, but put it off for a week after expressing concern about the courts’ ability to accommodate early hearings of a multiplicity. of cases related to the 2020 exit certificate. qualification process.
When the case returned to the judge today, she was told that Ms. Woods had obtained a place in the UCC Dentistry course and was withdrawing her case as a result.
Ms. Woods, represented by Pearse Sreenan SC, instructed by Amy Connolly of Cantillons Solicitors, had initiated the judicial review process against the Minister of Education, the State Examination Commission, the State, the CAO and the UCC.
Judge Meenan said he was pleased with the result and wished Ms. Woods every success in college and in her career.
Separately, the judge has said that he will treat another case started earlier this month as the main case addressing the issues with the 2020 Leaving Cert process and hoped to give him an early hearing date.
That case is of a student in Dublin, who missed a place in Medicine at Trinity College Dublin by two points after three of her calculated grades were lowered.
The judge hoped that the outcome of the case would decide some or all of the issues raised in other cases, adding that parties in other cases may seek to join the main case.
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