AN academic who claimed she was victimised by her Oxford University colleague has had her case quashed yet again.

Judge Peter Clark, sitting at the Employment Appeal Tribunal in London, has dismissed Dr Cecile Deer’s latest claims against the university.

In 2008 Dr Deer, pictured, then lecturing in French at Balliol College, reached an out-of-court settlement with the university over allegations she was sexually discriminated against after being left out of the university’s football team because she was a mother.

Then she was refused a reference for a junior research fellowship at Merton College the same year, which she alleged was further victimisation. But Professor Geoffrey Walford, Emeritus Professor of Education Policy, said it was because it was too late in her career to apply and because of gaps on her CV.

She lost that case and appealed the decision made by Reading Employment Tribunal, which she subsequently lost in May 2011.

This was her second attempt to claim she was victimised, but she lost the employment tribunal hearing in July 2012 and appealed.

Judge Clark, in dismissing her latest appeal, said Dr Deer now claimed that Prof Walford was the “innocent conduit of acts of victimisation by others”.

He added that her grievance was “ill-founded”.