The AS­JA Ed­u­ca­tion Board of Man­age­ment has lost its ap­peal against a judge’s de­ci­sion to al­low a par­ent to pur­sue a ju­di­cial re­view over the penal­ty im­posed on his daugh­ter af­ter she was caught cheat­ing in an in­ter­nal ex­am­i­na­tion at AS­JA Girls’ Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do.

De­liv­er­ing their rul­ing on Thurs­day, Ap­pel­late Judges Va­heist Kokaram and Eleanor Don­ald­son-Hon­ey­well dis­missed the pro­ce­dur­al ap­peal brought by the board, the school and its act­ing prin­ci­pal, Aliyah Amars­ingh-Mo­hammed.

In the ap­peal, at­tor­neys for the group, led by Se­nior Coun­sel Ramesh Lawrence-Ma­haraj, ar­gued that the High Court judge erred in grant­i­ng the par­ent per­mis­sion to bring the ju­di­cial re­view claim over the school’s dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion.