A college lecturer whose son admitted cheating in an examination by taking material from his father's office has taken High Court proceedings challenging his suspension as head of the Department of Built Environment at Limerick Institute of Technology.
Mr Gerry O'Loughlin, Brickhill West, Cratloe, Co Clare, also got leave to seek by way of judicial review a declaration that the purported decision to suspend him as department head is ultra vires the powers of the college.
He claims the college authorities were required to advise him in advance of any contemplated suspension and should have afforded him an opportunity to challenge the decision.
He alleges the college acted unreasonably in the absence of a specific complaint against him and a failure to notify him that complaints were being made against him.
He also claims the college failed to raise with him any reservations which its Governing Body may have had about his responses to certain findings of a report on the integrity of the examination system at the college.