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The former head of the University of B.C.’s creative writing program, who was fired under a cloud of sexual assault allegations, has won the right to see all correspondence between former UBC boss Martha Piper and the person who accused him of the assault.

Last week, Supreme Court of B.C. Justice Catherine Murray ruled that three people named in Steven Galloway’s defamation case must provide information to back up their affidavits — including copies of correspondence between A.B., who is at the centre of the case having accused Galloway of sexual assault, and former UBC president Martha Piper — because A.B. claimed she was told by Piper to advise others of the alleged sexual assault.

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The case goes back to November 2015, when UBC stated that serious allegations had been made against Galloway and that he had been suspended. An investigation headed by former Supreme Court of B.C. justice Mary Ellen Boyd into the case concluded that Galloway had a consensual affair with A.B., who was one of his students. He was fired in June 2016, due to an “irreparable breach of trust.” UBC later paid Galloway $167,000 in damages after an arbitrator found “certain communication” by the university violated Galloway’s privacy and damaged his reputation.