From March 3 to 5, Robbie Morrison, Chair of the Non-Academic Misconduct Committee during 2014 and 2015, testified for UBC. Cross examination by Clea began on March 5 and wrapped up on Monday, March 10. Morrison spoke to the events both of the Mordvinov Class and the General Class, since he ran NAM hearings for both. As with prior witnesses, rolling disclosure before and during testimony has occurred, though it did not hold up the testimony, unlike with witnesses like Clark Lundeen and Steve Bohnen. The most notable new document we received in March 2025 was Dmitry Mordvinov’s written response to the Statement of Allegations: although we had earlier received other elements of the package, Mordvinov’s actual response was not provided before and counsel had Morrison produce it during his testimony.
The direct examination of Chad Hyson, Director of Student Conduct and Safety in the office of VP Students in 2014 and 2015, then commenced and finished mid-Friday afternoon, March 14. Both witnesses remain current employees of UBC.
Cross examination of Chad Hyson will begin during our next April dates, which are April 22 through 25. (April 21 had been scheduled but was lost due to a calendar conflict.) The parties also tentatively scheduled some dates in July, but we hope that Hyson’s cross will finish. Hyson has evidence for both the Mordvinov and General Classes.
UBC plans to call one final witness after Hyson, an administrator who can speak to evidence about the money UBC paid to Mordvinov, whose name I don’t know right now (and also the identity of this person has changed because an earlier potential witness was found to have retired). UBC’s estimate for their testimony was perhaps a day in direct; cross examination would probably be much less. UBC definitely stated earlier this year that it will NOT call the witnesses it listed who work at the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office, which was created in 2017 in direct response to the publicity around the Mordvinov case. (Neither of the then-proposed witnesses had any factual knowledge of the Mordvinov case, nor of the General Class as far as I know.)
The General Class Member who testified earlier this year decided that they would like their name to be used in the blog and in the final decision. Their name is Lauren Fisher. They join Tara McBryan as one of the two General Class Members who testified (as Member Prince cut Stephanie Hale from the Class).
Once the witness testimony completes, both parties will make written submissions to the Tribunal with our closing arguments. This will take several months as I believe it follows the submission-reply-sur-reply structure we’ve seen before. Member Prince will consider the submissions as she digests the evidence and writes her decision, and I expect that will take her a number of months as well. Luckily, British Columbia recently gave the Tribunal more resources and there are more Tribunalmembers recently appointed. However, for a hearing with thousands of documents in evidence, taking place over two years, with very many claimants (many of which are Jane Does shielded from my knowledge by UBC) and testimony from over two dozen witnesses, I certainly expect Member Prince will take plenty of time to write her decision. Once all the witnesses conclude, I will write a brief summary of who testified for the blog.
Glynnis Kirchmeier - and - Kirchmeier obo Others v. UBC 