The UK government has won a vote in upcoming legislation that’ll ensure that cancelled academics and students will have the right to sue universities over free speech infringements.
Lord’s amendments to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill were debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday and Amendment 10—which sought to remove the right of students and academics to sue universities that breach their speech rights—was defeated.
In December, when the Bill passed through the House of Lords,  former Conservative universities minister Lord Willetts and others voted to remove the statutory tort from the legislation on the basis that it risked “imposing unnecessary additional costs on universities.”…