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Procedural Fairness And University Students: England And Canada Compared, Clive B. Lewis
Procedural Fairness And University Students: England And Canada Compared, Clive B. Lewis
Dalhousie Law Journal
Universities have recently been subjected to increased demands for judicial scrutiny of the conduct of their affairs, especially in the area of procedural review. Much of the academic writing has concentrated on these developments as they affect the academic staff of the university.' This article seeks to redress the balance by considering procedural fairness in the context of university decision-making as it affects students. A study of university decision-making provides a useful framework for a more general consideration of the new approach to "procedural fairness" with its emphasis on balancing the nature of the decisions against the competing interests of …