Since my last update, I have had my baby (and wrapped up my professional work before my parental leave, and submitted my spouse’s green card application).
I also completed my primary task of assessing what was included in the July 31, 2020 document disclosure from UBC. While I have not read every word of the documents, I have a general sense of them. They consisted of 19 folders ranging from one one-page document to dozens and several hundred pages, sorted by the originating person. Clea and her staff are still reading some of the Outlook files that I was not able to open. We’ve got some questions to UBC about redactions and additional missing documents – but, fortunately, the lion’s share of this part of the case is finally about done.
On September 10, the Tribunal sent a letter to the parties setting deadlines of October 8 for me to reply to UBC’s Application to Dismiss, and UBC the deadline of October 22 to reply. The Tribunal did not check with Clea before issuing the deadlines; I am not sure if UBC was consulted. In any case Clea wrote to inform everyone that we could not meet them, as she had a Hearing the week of October 8 (and I have been preoccupied with childbirth and a newborn). The Tribunal also did not ask us if we are satisfied with UBC’s production. She proposed dates in November for us to answer the long-lingering Application to Dismiss. I have not been able to catch up with her this past week, but when we spoke earlier in October the Tribunal had not replied to her letter.
FURTHER UPDATE AS OF OCTOBER 16: The Tribunal canceled the October dates and gave us until October 15 to advise on whether document disclosure was complete, which we did. We named a number of categories of documents that we think still need to be disclosed, but indicated that we are nonetheless ready to address the Application to Dismiss and proposed December 4 as our deadline. Today, October 16, the Tribunal agreed to December 4 for us, and December 18, 2020 for UBC’s written reply.
Glynnis Kirchmeier - and - Kirchmeier obo Others v. UBC 