School partly liable for student's suicide
( 2003-12-02 16:35) (China Daily)
A university has been ordered
to pay the family of a student who committed suicide after failing a course
120,000 yuan (US$14,500), reports Southern Metro News.
He Hui, a graduate student at the unnamed university, received a warning for
failing a course in 2001 and behaved strangely afterwards, according to court
documents.
On December 31, 2001, he showed symptoms of a nervous breakdown and jumped
from a building after people tried to talk him out of the idea for three hours.
His parents filed a 413,000-yuan (US$49,900) lawsuit against the university,
blaming the son's death on the university's "irrational exam system" and failure
to prevent the suicide.
In announcing the verdict, the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court said
that though He Hui committed suicide of his own free will, timely action on the
part of the university could have prevented the tragedy.
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