UK Judge Blasts University Officials Who Filed Libel Suit Against PT Lecturer
by Andrew Hough Salford University, in Manchester, England, charges students up to £9,000 ($13,950) a year in tuition fees and axed 60 posts last year. University officials were accused by a judge of abusing the High Court’s processes in actions against part-time lecturer Dr. Gary Duke. Senior officials authorized legal action against the former part-timer over a website which compared university managers to Hizbollah and a “bureaucratic dictatorship.” Yesterday, it emerged Salford University had lost its three-year fight against Dr. Duke (pictured left), from Eccles, Salford, Greater Manchester, after a High Court judge rejected its claim it had been libelled. The […]
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