A graduate who tried to sue Oxford University because he just missed out on earning a top degree has had his claim thrown out.
Faiz Siddiqui wanted £1m in damages from the university over what he described as “negligently inadequate teaching” that affected his degree grade 20 years ago.
Siddiqui, of Bayswater, west London, claimed that the 2:1 degree had a “marked deleterious effect” on his subsequent career.
However, High Court judge, Mr. Justice Foskett, ruled against the graduate, who was 39 at the time of the trial, after deciding that the “delivery” of part of a history course in 1999-2000 was not “negligently inadequate.”