By Carolyn Quek

A PRIVATE school got a $20,000 payout last week, after it found out that the lecture notes it had developed for its own students were being used elsewhere.

Stansfield College took three of its former lecturers and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants (ICPAS) to court for copyright infringement in September last year.

Last Wednesday, three days into the hearing, the matter was settled out of court for the $20,000 sum.

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