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The Federal Court has ordered a continued injunction against a misconduct investigation, finding it possible that the employer's process breached its enterprise agreement.

Earlier this month the Court made an interlocutory order preventing the University of New England from taking further steps in the misconduct process, pending a final decision on his claim that it had failed to comply with the EA and therefore the process should be abandoned.

About a week later Justice Geoffrey Kennett heard the employee's application to continue the order.

The employer alleged that in February this year, while on a retreat for student leaders in Coffs Harbour, the UNE residential college head inappropriately touched a female student's buttocks...