Deman v Queen’s University Belfast [2019]

The claimant was employed by the respondent University as a lecturer in the School of Finance.  The case arose out of the claimant’s failed application to the position of Professor of Finance.  He was informed by email on 9^th June 2017 that he had been unsuccessful and he sought feedback on why he had not been shortlisted.  He was informed that he failed to meet two criteria those being a “sustained publication record of international excellence in field of specialisation,” and a “record of securing external research funding”.  He was also erroneously informed that nobody had been shortlisted when in fact three of the eighteen applicants had been.

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