Legal challenge dropped after Belfast Royal Academy agrees to change admissions criteria Belfast Royal Academy in north Belfast. Picture by Mal McCann
BRA adopted non-selective criteria but was due to face a judicial review. Picture by Mal McCann
A LEGAL challenge against a grammar school s admissions criteria has been dropped after governors agreed to a change.
It had been claimed that Belfast Royal Academy (BRA) ignored guidance relating to recommended methods of selecting pupils.
Grammar entrance tests were cancelled this year, forcing schools to devise alternative criteria.
Amid warnings from lawyers, most abandoned efforts to use different forms of academic selection in lieu of transfer tests.