If a Bayer-Backed Student Needs the High Court to Be Heard — What Hope Does Any UK Student Have?

🧾 What My Case Against Cambridge Reveals About UK Law, Student Rights, and the Failure to Protect Even When the Whole World Is Watching

In 2024, I signed a fully executed research contract — backed by:

• The University of Cambridge

• NIAB, a leading UK research institute

• And Bayer US, one of the largest global science and innovation companies

The agreement was:

• Legally binding

• Governed under English law

• Embedded within Cambridge’s own statutes and doctoral procedures

• Intended to deliver research with international food security impact

And yet — when the university breached the agreement, I was left with nothing.

No protection.

No remedy.

No accountability.

And that’s why I’ve now taken the matter to the High Court of Justice.

📜 Hearing date: 11 September 2025 | Case Ref: BL-2025-000689

⚠️ But Here’s the Deeper Problem:

This shouldn’t have to go to court.

In the UK, students are classified as consumers under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

That’s not symbolic — it means universities are legally required to treat students fairly, deliver promised services, and honour agreed terms.

And yet, even with:

• A signed legal contract

• A US multinational funder

• Compliance under English law

…no regulator stepped in.

🏛️ The Entire UK Oversight System Was Informed — Still, Silence

I formally notified:

• Members of UK Parliament

• The Department for Education (DfE)

• The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT)

• The Office of the Prime Minister

• The Office for Students (OfS)

• The Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA)

• The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

• Internal legal and governance offices within Cambridge and NIAB

Not one of them enforced action.

Not one regulator ensured protection — even under consumer law.

💸 Why Investors, Funders, and Institutions Should Be Alarmed

This breach wasn’t theoretical. It had cost.

Bayer US funded the project — with global commercial and agricultural value.

The research would have supported:

• Sustainable crop innovation

• Food security

• Trade collaborations across sectors and borders

Now?

• The project is lost.

• The funding is wasted.

• The research pipeline is broken.

• And the deliverables have vanished from the financial year.

🌍 A Global Domino Effect — Caused by UK Inaction

If a world-class institution like Cambridge can breach a signed contract —

even with Bayer US backing it — and face no regulatory consequence…

Then the message to every funder, startup, and international partner is clear:

There is no enforcement mechanism for students in the UK — unless they fight for it in court.

That’s not just unfair.

That’s financially reckless.

That’s reputationally corrosive for the UK’s entire higher education and research ecosystem.

🧠 What This Reveals:

✔️ Students are consumers — but the rights are not enforced

✔️ UK regulators were formally notified — and failed to act

✔️ Investors can lose funding, output, and time with no remedy

✔️ Prestige is masking legal vulnerability across UK institutions

❤️ This Isn’t Just About One Case

This could be your child’s contract.

Your organisation’s funding.

Your country’s credibility.

And if the only way to enforce student rights in the UK is through High Court litigation —

then the system is broken by design.

Most students can’t take that route.

Most are expected to give up quietly.

That’s the game.

Until someone breaks it.

And if the High Court cannot correct this breach — let’s see whether the European Court of Human Rights considers this silence acceptable. 🇪🇺⚖️

Because under Protocol 1, Article 2, the right to education is protected —

and when a student is locked out of a doctoral programme they were legally admitted to, with no effective remedy, that right is being denied.

This isn’t just administrative failure.

It’s a systemic breakdown of trust, law, and protection — at the highest levels of UK education.

Rights without enforcement are not rights.

And students are not just participants in research — they are legal parties, consumers, and human beings with futures on the line.

🏛️ Timeline

📜 25 March 2025 — First formal governance concern raised to Cambridge.

📜 27 March 2025 — NowCE Ltd files breach of contract claim (Ref: BL-2025-LIV-000012).

📜 3 April 2025 — Second follow-up submisison with contractual analysis and and request for good faith resolution.

📜 15 April 2025 — Final Submission III sent, requesting internal remedy grounded in fairness and law.

📜 29 April 2025 — Cambridge breaches signed studentship contract (Ref: G552392).

📜 30 April 2025 — Regulators informed: sent to OIA, ICO, OfS, CMA, and Members of Parliament.

📜 1 May 2025 — Shakespeare Martineau LLP formally instructed by Cambridge as legal defence.

📜 7 May 2025 — Legal action filed at the High Court (Ref: BL-2025-000689).

📜 10 June 2025 — Cambridgeshire County Council admits 20 procurement breaches, with 13 found to be violations of procurement law— totalling over £27 million.

📜 23 June 2025 — Peter Alexander Maximilian Bohuš makes the Cambridge breach public.

📜 25 June 2025 — The Cambridge Dictionary quietly updates its entry for “breach of contract.”

📜 13 July 2025 — Case reaches Top 3 on Google Search, above BBC.

📜 16 July 2025 — The Cambridge Dictionary quietly updates its entry for “breach of contract.”

📜 31 July/1 August 2025 — Key worldwide Cambridge University donors were informed of the dispute

📜 2 August 2025 — 4 New Square Chambers, one of the UK’s leading commercial barristers’ chambers, viewed my public professional updates.

📜 11 September 2025 — 11am High Court Hearing.