UCC lecturer claims sexual harassment inquiry ‘unfair’

A UCC lecturer who was the subject of a sexual harassment inquiry after he showed a female colleague a scientific paper on the sex life of fruit bats has claimed in the High Court that he was not given a fair hearing.

Behavioural science lecturer Dr Dylan Evans, 43, says the inquiry failed to take into account or interview another woman whom, he says, was also present when he showed the paper to School of Medicine colleague Dr Salerno Kennedy.

In judicial review proceedings which opened yesterday, Dr Evans is seeking to quash the inquiry findings and subsequent sanctions imposed on him, including a two-year period of monitoring and training. UCC denies his claims.