The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed a bid to appeal by accusers of former UBC writing professor and novelist Steven Galloway, paving the way for his defamation case against them to go to trial.
People walk past large letters spelling out UBC at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver on Nov. 22, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
“Steven can finally move his case forward to a trial and have his claim heard,” Burnett said. “He’s a very determined man who has been badly wronged. He has stuck it out and he will stick it out to the end and have at long last his reputation finally cleared when the matter gets finally to a trial where the truth can properly come out.” He was also the chair of the creative writing program at UBC, but was suspended and later fired after the allegations against him emerged.
“Steven’s reputation and life were devastated by criminal allegations that most of us, I think, could not even imagine having to suffer through,” Burnett said. A three-judge panel of the B.C. Court of Appeal then agreed with Adair’s “compelling reasons,” saying she had been “well aware of the public interest and the importance of encouraging reporting of sexual offences.”
Emily MacKinnon is the lawyer for University of Alberta professor Marcelle Kosman, who is among more than a dozen defendants in Galloway’s defamation case, and among eight who sought leave to appeal to the high court.
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