Professor to sue Cambridge over ‘forced retirement’ rules

Oxford has had its EJRA declared as unlawful discrimination by two ETs and on appeal over the first ET decision also by an EAT; it has not dared appeal the second ET decision. It will have spent an egregious amount of charitable income on legal fees and also on compensation to individuals it sacked (although successive FOIA enquiries seem to indicate that the U does not in fact know what it has so far spent!). It is sad that the U of Cambridge appears not to learn from the legal hole that Oxford has got itself into, and very sad indeed that Oxford keeps digging. Of course, nobody in the Oxford hierarchy will ever be held responsible for wasting charitable income. Both Us with their new VCs now have an opportunity to end the EJRA nonsense… Good luck to Professor Anderson in challenging Cambridge.