A Victoria University student accused of plagiarism in a project has taken action in the Wellington High Court in an effort to have the university's finding overturned.
Brittany Bell says the university's appeal committee was wrong to uphold the plagiarism decision which prevented her from graduating.
It related to work Ms Bell submitted as part of her interior design course at Victoria University.
Ms Bell says the final version of her work included an appendix in which she acknowledged that two of her designs were influenced by the website Suckerpunchdaily.
However, the University Appeals Committee found Ms Bell had deliberately set out to deceive by putting the images in without acknowledgement.
Her lawyer says that decision was wrong, because a professor treated the second draft of her work as the final copy, when it was not.
