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By agreement of the parties and as approved by the Tribunal, UBC’s Response to Complainants’ written closing submissions are now due May 15, 2026.

The Complainants’ Reply to the University, which will be the last written submissions before Member Prince issues her decision, will be due June 25, 2026.

I will post the submissions on the blog as I have usually done throughout this litigation.

As a further housekeeping note, on the “Documents” page I noticed that some of the links to Tribunal decisions are dead. This is because in the past the Tribunal hosted pdfs of its decisions on its website, and at some point moved all of its decisions as a link to CanLII. I simply haven’t had the time to go through and ensure the documents are properly linked, but I plan to do so at some point this summer. In any case, https://www.canlii.org/ is a very powerful, wonderful resource for legal decisions, and all of the Tribunal’s decisions for this case can be found by searching for my name. The full case name is Kirchmeier obo others [note: some decisions are entered as Kirchmeier and others] v. University of British Columbia.

No forward progress has been made since the last update. My attorney has reached out to the Tribunal to attempt to schedule the conference previously mentioned.

No developments have occurred since the last update. UBC proposed having a conference to resolve the issues I have with its disclosure. This remains to be scheduled.

In other news, Stephanie Hale, a former UBC student who also filed a Human Rights Complaint, has submitted her response to UBC’s Application to Dismiss in her case. She should expect a response from the Tribunal in several weeks or months.

A former student from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, who filed a Human Rights Complaint after UOIT mishandled her report of rape, may have her case shortly go to a hearing before the Human Rights Commission in Ontario. If it does go to hearing, it will be the first case of its kind to do so that I’m aware of in Canada – the cases where victims of sexual violence allege systemic discrimination against institutions of higher education because of how the institutions mishandled their reports. Mandi Gray, York PhD student, was the first to file a case of this type in 2015. Since then there have been a number of complaints filed across Canada – but forward progress is slow, and many complainants have chosen not to continue or have settled with the institutions. It remains to be seen the extent to which the institutions treat the settlement terms in good faith.

Finally, the Ubyssey is following up on UBC’s effort to handwave away cases interpretations of “jurisdiction” for reports of sexual violence.