Malicious Belford Lawsuit

Life Experience Degrees have gained a lot of attention lately among people from varied age groups and fields of profession, being awarded to those who have managed to master in central competencies of knowledge, skills and experience in a certain profession. Currently, a number of online institutions are granting life experience degrees by assessing the prior experience of individuals through different techniques. Life experience degree holders surely get similar opportunities from employers and educational institutions as their counterparts. A recent study showed that between 90-95 percent employers keenly hire people who have been honored with life experience degrees.

Amusingly the rivals of Life Experience degrees just cannot classify any such degree as ‘fake’ except in cases where they sport a similar name or resemble the ones issued by any other institutions. Recently, a law firm called Googasian P.C. has misleadingly filed a class action against Belford High School – a life experience based online institution.

Supporters of life experience degrees on the other hand, see it as an absolutely legal medium as hundreds of life experience degrees awarding institutes today productively function in US and on globally, honoring deserving individuals for their prior life experiences without claiming to be ‘educating’ them for the degree awarded. Calling these degrees ‘bogus’ would be plain unlawful as unmistakably the degrees awarded are based on genuine work experiences of the holders in the truest sense.

Googasian P.C. has won settlement money against a local high school recently and must have filed the class action against Belford with either the parallel intentions of making more money or other malicious intentions. By even opening up websites reserved wholly solely for the purpose of apparently ‘coming to the rescue’ of such distressed students who may have received fake degrees from other online life experience based institutions shows that Belford has only been targeted who Googasian was aware of, (that has been around successfully since years in the industry, enjoying goodwill and respect) and through its aforesaid websites it is in fact obtaining a list of other such life experience based institutions which can be the next targets of its malicious plans.

Chances are high that Googasian is a front-end player of a certain lobby possibly comprising of traditional educationists and institutions, looking to jeopardize the reputation of the life experience industry. In case you may have heard stories like a cat or dog being awarded a life experience degree, rest assured that such accusations are baseless as how can one blame the institute for awarding a degree on the basis of the credentials they have received while their terms & conditions clearly state that incase of any misrepresentation, the degree will be ‘cancelled’. All information is submitted on oath and ‘pain of perjury’ as the degree then stands ‘null and void’ if one has misrepresented their credentials’ information.

A famous case should thus aptly be quoted here having taken place in 2006 filed by Mr. Paul McKenna against Daily mirror newspaper who called his degree ‘bogus’. For details read the relevant BBC article, visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5223454.stm. In the year 1996, McKenna was awarded the doctoral degree PhD degree from LaSalle University (Louisiana) on completing a 70,000-word thesis on a study. In 2006 McKenna successfully sued the Daily Mirror for libel; over claims made by journalist Victor Lewis-Smith that McKenna obtained a “bogus degree” simply for money to intentionally deceive the public. McKenna won the case and significant damages. The court declared that Mr. McKenna was not dishonest and regardless of the quality of his earned degree, it would be unfair to write it off as ‘bogus’ and that any presumable lack of academic expertise of La Salle’ University does not suggest that its client has been dishonest about his rightfully earned credits based on his life experiences.

So does the law firm Googasain P.C. look forward to an upshot like Daily Mirror Newspaper? We can clearly see how Belford High School’s terms & conditions given its their official website alone unmistakably guard their case.