Dr Eoin O’Dell of the School of Law at the Trinity College Dublin picked up on a post on Slaw by Omar Ha-Redeye about the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in Jaffer v. York University.

He points out similarities between this case and another involving Andrew Coskery, a Irish student at the Queen’s University Belfast seeking judicial review of his university marks.

O’Dell has covered the Coskery case and discussed examiner’s academic freedom, non-law students who also sue, and reactions to the case by academics.

He points to the following international cases that discuss similar issues:
Keefe v New York Law School (17 November 2009)
George van Mellaert v Oxford University [2006] EWHC 1565 (QB) (29 June 2006)
Board of Curators, University of Missouri v Horowitz 435 US 78 (1978)
University of Michigan v Ewing 474 US 214 (1985)
Quinn v Honourable Society of King’s Inns [2004] IEHC 220 (15 June 2004)
Clark v University of Lincolnshire and Humberside [2000] 1 WLR 1988

Ronald Reagan once said,

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

A lot has changed since Reagan’s time, specifically the use of technology to transmit information through mediums such as the Internet.

But what is the impact on politics?

This was the subject of a session at the MaRS Centre entitled The Permanent Campaign.

Renowned technology expert and journalist, Jesse Hirsh, moderated a panel of speakers on the subject which included:

• Omar Ha-Redeye – First-year law student at the University of Western Ontario
• Gillian Moody – PR Professional
• Andrew Coyne – National Editor of Maclean’s magazine
• Andrea Moffat – President and owner of Divercity Consultants
• Stephen Taylor – The Blogging Tories

Prof. Greg Elmer, Director of the Infoscape research lab, Ryerson University, Toronto, gave the introductory plenary.

Jesse Hirsh has provided an overview of the event.