These proceedings concern a schools admissions policy and the question of whether it discriminates against a young boy who is a member of the traveller community. Under the admissions policy at issue, children whose fathers have not attended the school are treated less favourably than children whose fathers have. Although this issue arises in the specific context of a child who is a member of the Traveller community where the level of educational attainment historically is accepted to be considerably lower than in the population as a whole thereby making it far less likely that the child can satisfy the pedigree based criterion that his father have attended the school, such a pedigree based criterion in an admissions policy raises issues of far more general concern impacting also, for example, on members of the newly established immigrant community where there may not necessarily be the same historic educational disadvantage.