A legal dispute over efforts by a school to find out who is behind a closed down Instagram account which made "coarse and vulgar" remarks about certain staff and students is to be referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Today, Mr Justice Garrett Simons said he was referring a number of questions on the case to the ECJ for a preliminary ruling. In some instances, the content ridiculed members of the school’s staff by reference to their personal appearance, weight and sexuality, the judge said. "Given the coarse and vulgar content of the posts, however, it is inconceivable that anyone viewing the user account would mistake it for an 'official' school account,” the judge said. The court is asked, if this is so, if that right is qualified in the case of the students and staff of a secondary school.

Source: Irish Independent May 19, 2021 09:33 UTC