sentences:  He won his subsequent High Court action against the college for constructive dismissal, the government-appointed Sloman Commission into the affair condemning the college for its breach of Selbourne's academic freedom.He also brought successful proceedings against The Independent – a newspaper for which he had himself written – gaining substantial damages for a libellous assertion, supported by misquotation from "The Principle of Duty", which falsely attributed to Selbourne far right-wing views.Selbourne's intervention in March 1996 was instrumental, too, in stopping acceptance by Oxford University, and by his old college, of the Flick Bequest, and he was active for many years in support of the Tamil cause in Sri Lanka, for which he was expelled from Colombo in June 1983.