Graduate Student Reinstated
JP Zubec successfully represented a Master’s Degree student at the University of Ottawa by applying to the Divisional Court of Ontario for an order quashing a decision of the University of Ottawa Senate Committee. The decision resulted in the student’s forced withdrawal from a Master’s Degree Program. The Divisional Court, which normally gives deference to university decisions, quashed the Senate Committee’s decision and ordered that the student be reinstated into the Program after finding that she had been treated with such manifest unfairness that a flagrant violation of the rules of natural justice resulted: Handa v. University of Ottawa (Divisional Court of Ontario, unreported: June 10, 2008)