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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kevin Rawlinson

Academic ‘prepared to take legal action’ after gender lecture disrupted at Bristol University

Professor Alice Sullivan said peaceful protest should not amount to a ‘heckler’s veto’
Sullivan said peaceful protest should not amount to a ‘heckler’s veto’. Photograph: Geoff Pugh/Shutterstock

A UK university faces the prospect of legal action over claims it failed to protect the right to freedom of expression of an academic who was invited to give a lecture on sex and gender.

Prof Alice Sullivan has written to the University of Bristol and the university regulator the Office for Students (OfS) to complain after her talk was disrupted by protesters. She told the BBC some people who had wanted to attend had stayed away because they felt intimidated and that reasonable steps could have been taken to prevent that.

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