Poor defence, after the fact

Nick Petford's apologia for the misdeeds of Bournemouth University in the Buckland case cannot go unchallenged (Letters, 11 March).

It was the view of the Southampton Employment Tribunal that originally heard this case that the university had permitted and had indeed aided and abetted the unauthorised re-marking of scripts. In upholding Paul Buckland's claim for constructive dismissal, the Court of Appeal went out of its way to praise the manner in which the Southampton tribunal had established this fact.

Geoffrey Alderman, University of Buckingham.