Author Andrew Malcolm is to continue his legal battle with Oxford University Press over the company's failure to publish a book on philosophy which took him ten years to write.
Mr Malcolm failed in his efforts to sue the OUP for breach of contract when the case was heard in the High Court in March. But in his judgement, Mr Gavin Lightman said the author had been treated "harshly and unfairly" by the internationally famous publishers and hoped the company would try to make amends.
Mr Malcolm, a philosophy lecturer, says he is now taking his case to the Court of Appeal because new evidence has come to light. The High Court hearing centred on whether the OUP had entered into a legally binding contract to publish the book, described as a modern Platonic dialogue. Mr Lightman found that Mr Malcolm had been given a strong moral, though not a legal, commitment to publish the work.
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