Confidence and Contract - Ukoumunne v The University of Birmingham
Author Brianboru100 Licence CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Wikipedia University of Birmingham Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (HH Judge Hacon) Ukoumunne v The University of Birmingham and others [2020] EWHC 2927 (IPEC) (4 Nov 2020) This was an application by the University of Birmingham and three of its academics to strike out claims for breach of confidence and breach of contract that had been launched against them by one of their graduate students. These are the causes of action that survived an earlier strikeout application which I discussed in Copyright - Ukoumunne v The University of Birmingham on 20 Feb 2020. The claim had been for breach of confidence, breach of contract, copyright infringement, professional negligence, racial harassment, bullying, sex discrimination and loss of earnings. The claimant had complained that the University's lecturers had plagiarized her work in a book and articles that had...