In what circumstances will the Court take a more deferential stance with respect to discretionary decisions of an academic institution concerning academic matters?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Kahsay v. Humber College Institute of Technology, 2012 ONSC 138 (CanLII):
With respect to the substantive decision, in the absence of such breaches of the duty of fairness, the Courts take a very deferential stance in relation to the discretionary decisions of academic institutions concerning academic matters and the standard of review is one of reasonableness (see Dawson v. University of Ottawa, (1994) 72 O.A.C. 232).
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