Hines v Birkbeck College

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1985
Year1985
CourtChancery Division
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23 cases
  • Duke St John-Paull Foote v University of Technology Jamaica and Another
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 31 July 2015
    ...questions as what mark or class a student ought to be awarded or whether an ægrotat is justified. It has been clear, at least since Hines v Birkbeck College [1985] 3 All ER 156, [1986] Ch 524 (approved in Thomas's case), that this distinction has no bearing on the availability of recourse......
  • Mason (Vanessa) v The University of the West Indies
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 2 July 2009
    ...a number of authorities including Patel v University of Bradford Senate and Another [1978] 3 All E. R. 841, [1978] 1 W.L.R. 1488; Hines v Birkbeck College [1985] 3 All ER 156; Thomas v University of Bradford, [1987] 1 All ER 834; the unreported decision of Brooks J. in this court in Matt......
  • Mr David Anthony Winstanley v Professor Brian D Sleeman (First Defendant) University of Leeds (Second Defendnat)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 13 December 2013
    ...to academic or pastoral judgment which are not. I quote again from paragraph 12 of the judgment: "It has been clear, at least since Hines v Birkbeck College [1986] Ch. 524 (approved in Thomas), that this distinction has no bearing on the availability of recourse to the courts in an institu......
  • Hines v Birkbeck College (No. 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 June 1991
    ...Room 392, Royal Courts of Justice, and 2 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London, W.C.2) LORD JUSTICE NOURSE 1 In Hines v. Birkbeck College [1986] Ch. 524 Mr. Justice Hoffmann struck out the plaintiff's action against the college and the University of London on the ground that the subject matter ......
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2 books & journal articles
  • Legal challenges to university decisions affecting students in Australian courts and tribunals.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 34 No. 1, April 2010
    • 1 April 2010
    ...some difficult issues for courts in the United Kingdom: see, eg, Thorne v University of London [1966] 2 QB 237; Hines v Birkbeck College [1986] Ch 524; Thomas v University of Bradford [1987] AC 795; R v Lord President of the Privy Council; Ex parte Page [1993] AC 682. See also Tim Kaye, 'Ac......
  • Living on the Edge: Utopia University Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 27-2, June 1999
    • 1 June 1999
    ...staff willbemembers,graduatesandstudentsmightbemembersandotheremployeesofauniversity generallyarenot.See Hines vBirbeck College [1986] 2WLR 97; Thomas vUniversityofBradford [1987] AC 795.Courtshaveheldcontracts referringtotheinternalrulesoftheuniversityorincorporatinguniversitystatuteswerew......

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