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Toronto School of Theology – Student appealed termination of registration in Doctor of Theology Program –– Minutes of Settlement waived Student’s appeal rights – preliminary motion to determine jurisdiction of Academic Appeals Committee to hear appeal – absence of alternate appeal route does not give Academic Appeals Committee jurisdiction to hear appeal – appeal quashed

Faculty of Medicine – Student appeals from decision of Faculty of Medicine Appeals Committee upholding decision of Board of Examiners referring Student for remediation in professionalism due to lapses in professional behaviour – standard of review is reasonableness - Faculty regulations and procedures followed – relevant evidence taken into consideration – Baker v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship & Immigration [1999] SCC 699 – relaxed standard of procedural fairness appropriate when consequence of decision appealed from are remedial, educational and restorative, not punitive, and right to continue in academic program or career is not at stake – appeal dismissed

UTSC – late withdrawal without academic penalty – family pressures, financial circumstances and illness of family member – wrong to impose rules as rigorous as are imposed by appellate courts but Committee can refuse to consider new evidence – recommendation that all students are warned that full disclosure of all relevant facts is required at petition stage – nature of issue sufficiently disclosed in original petition – University policy on drop dates does not apply when unanticipated circumstances arise after the drop date, when then existing circumstances unexpectedly become significantly more severe, or when then existing circumstances were reasonably expected to abate, but did not – awareness of adverse circumstances and failing grades by drop date – late receipt of mark not grounds for relief because petition not filed promptly – difficulties associated with family member’s illness occurring around or after the drop date not exempted from drop date policy – appeal dismissed

Faculty of Arts and Science – late withdrawal without academic penalty – time spent caring for ill family member and little experience with ways of a Canadian university – the Student finished the course, passed the course and sought only to drop the course with lowest grade – circumstances were beyond the Student’s control, unduly intrusive on the Student’s ability to study, and became progressively and unexpectedly worse past drop date – unlikely to seek help available due to focus on ill family member and newness to Canadian university – appeal allowed – grade in the course vacated and replaced with WDR