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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 19 May 2025
Debate
Employment Rights BillContribution
There are the cases of Rosa Freedman and Jo Phoenix, two feminist professors, both of whom were no-platformed at the University of Essex. They were no-platformed because a university policy wrongly said that the university had a responsibility to protect its employees from third-party harassment. Akua Reindorf KC was invited by the university to investigate what had happened and why these two distinguished feminist professors had been no-platformed. In her conclusion about the policy that had been invoked to no-platform them, which referenced the university’s duty to protect its employees from third-party harassment, she said:
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