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Wed 10 Oct 2008Academic's challenge upheld by Supreme Court
THE SUPREME Court has upheld a challenge by Prof Connell Fanning, head of the economics department of University College Cork (UCC), to the conduct by the college authorities of an investigation into allegations he grabbed a female member of the college staff by the throat during an incident in the college car park.
The three-judge court yesterday unanimously rejected UCC's appeal against a High Court decision that the disciplinary procedures invoked by it towards Prof Fanning were beyond its powers.
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