C v. University of Victoria and another, 2013 BCHRT 254 (CanLII), - Early days in a claim by U Vic student with mental disabilities. Leave to amend claim for retaliation by uni for making the claim allowed: At the end of October 2010, C was elected to a student’s position as a UVSS representative on the Advisory Committee. The Chair of the Advisory Committee was the Associate Vice-President (Student Affairs) (“AVP”). • The AVP was advised by the UVSS Chairperson that C had been elected to sit on the Advisory Committee. The same day, the AVP sent an email to the UVSS Chairperson telling him that unless C’s current complaint against UVic was resolved, it was inappropriate and a conflict of interest for C to sit on the Advisory Committee and asked the UVSS Chairperson to have the UVSS appoint someone other than C to the Committee. • The next day, the UVSS Chairperson advised C that UVic had declared him to be in a conflict of interest. The message as C understood it was that he was removed from the committee. • C then sent an email to the AVP asking him to explain the issue that he thought was a conflict or interest for C on the Committee. The AVP replied that “while you (C) are pursuing a human rights complaint against the university on as issue of accommodation that it would be a conflict of interest for you to serve on an internal committee dealing with issues of accommodation.”
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 00:02:57 +0000
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