NIPC Law

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...

Author Brianboru100   Licence CC BY-SA 3.0   Source Wikipedia University of Birmingham   Jane Lambert Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (Miss Recorder Amanda Michaels) Ukoumunne v The University of Birmingham and other s [2020] EWHC 184 (IPEC) (5 Feb 2020) On 5 Dec 2019 Miss Recorder Michaels heard applications by the claimant for the transfer of her claim for copyright infringement, breach of confidence and other complaints to be transferred to the Queen's Bench Division and for an order for disclosure. The recorder also heard applications by the defendants to strike out the action under CPR 3.4 (2) (a) and summary judgment under CPR 24.2. The claimant is a graduate student of the University of Birmingham who has taught at Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Greenwich. The first defendant is the University of Birmingham, the second, third, fourth and fifth defendants are academics at that University. The claiman...