A professor’s application for judicial review of university’s decision to waive academic requirements for a disabled student was denied on the ground that the professor did not have public or private interest in the matter

27. September 2011 0
Administrataive law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – University Committees – Universities – Students – Duty to accommodate – Assessment of grades – review – Parties – Standing – Jurisdiction Lukacs v. Doering, 2011 MBQB 203, [2011] M.J. No. 264, Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench, August 25, 2011, D.J. McCawley J. The University of Manitoba ...

A medical student was unsuccesful in his application for the prerogative writ of certiorari as it is only available to a student who has been denied natural justice in the course of academic examinations

22. March 2011 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – University Committees – Rules and by-laws – Universities – Students – Assessment of grades – Judicial review – Jurisdiction – Procedural requirements and fairness – Remedies – Certiorari Sahi v. University of Saskatchewan, [2011] S.J. No. 59, 2011 SKQB 49, Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench, January 28, ...

The University of Manitoba (the “University”) unsuccessfully brought a motion seeking summary dismissal of an action commenced by a former dentistry student (“Hozaima”) on the basis that the Court lacked jurisdiction or that the claim represented an abuse of process. The motion was dismissed.

23. September 2008 0
Administrative law – Universities – Students – Assessment of grades – Evaluation – Educational malpractice – Abuse of process – test – Jurisdiction Hozaima v. Perry, [2008] M.J. No. 268, Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench, July 10, 2008, M.M. Monnin C.J.Q.B. Hozaima was a dentistry student at the University and was forced to resign from ...

A University of British Columbia (“UBC”) student who had been assigned a failing grade for his Bachelor of Education practicum course (“Mohl”) was partly successful in appealing from a decision in Chambers that his action against UBC was an abuse of process because it raised claims that had already been decided against Mohl in an earlier judicial review proceeding

28. March 2006 0
Administrative law – Universities – Students – Assessment of grades – Estoppel and res judicata – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Abuse of process – Judicial review – Appeals Mohl v. University of British Columbia, [2006] B.C.J. No 335, British Columbia Court of Appeal, February 17, 2006, Low, Smith and Thackray JJ.A. Mohl was assigned a failing ...