Clark v University of Lincolnshire and Humberside [2000] EWCA Civ 129 is a UK judicial review and enterprise law case, concerning the regulation of education.

Her computer had crashed, and the assignment she wrote on A Streetcar Named Desire in her Humanities undergraduate degree was lost.

However, questions of academic judgment had to be excluded as unsuitable for adjudication by the courts: Hines v Birkbeck College [1986] Ch 524 applied.

The CPR 1998 enabled courts to prevent unfair exploitation of the longer time limits for civil suits.

A university is a public body... Court proceedings would, therefore, normally be expected to be commenced under Order 53 [for judicial review].