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- High Court judge found Office for Students acted with bias and quashed £585,000 Sussex fine.
- The judge called the regulator’s academic-freedom stance “closed-minded.”
- The court held Sussex’s trans/non-binary policy was not a governing document, so it could not trigger the fine.
- Vice-Chancellor Sasha Roseneil said regulator ignored academic-freedom protections.
- Interim OfS chief Josh Fleming said it will review the judgment as speech-freedom legislation and a complaints system launch this autumn.
