{"id":736,"date":"2018-09-13T20:49:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T20:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=736"},"modified":"2018-09-28T07:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T07:51:43","slug":"watch-this-space-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/09\/13\/watch-this-space-legal-action\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH THIS SPACE: LEGAL ACTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever the trend-setter, Lancaster found itself being the first university in the UK to be sued for loss of teaching time due to the industrial action. We suspect that this case will collapse fairly quickly (if it hasn’t already), and we’ll cover that eventuality as a matter of tying up loose ends.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/05\/10\/special-report-the-mysterious-case-of-the-cancelled-lecture\/<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever the trend-setter, Lancaster found itself being the first university in the UK to be sued for loss of teaching time due to the industrial action. We suspect that this case will collapse fairly quickly (if it hasn’t already), and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[103],"tags":[390,325,179],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-annual-review-2017-18","tag-legal-action","tag-strike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-bS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":556,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/05\/10\/special-report-the-mysterious-case-of-the-cancelled-lecture\/","url_meta":{"origin":736,"position":0},"title":"SPECIAL REPORT: THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE CANCELLED LECTURE","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"May 10 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Lancaster is set to make history, this time as the first university to be named in a class action lawsuit over a breach of contract due to industrial action. 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