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The University of B.C. says that a man whose $30-million donation resulted in the university’s law faculty being named after him should not be allowed to appeal a decision that dismisses his claim that all law degrees conferred by UBC should have his name on them.

In November, Peter Allard filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court asking that an arbitrator’s award dismissing his claims be overturned.

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After Allard made his donation in 2014, the university renamed the law faculty in his name.

He claims in his petition that he only learned after the gift agreement had been signed that the university was not including mention of the Peter A. Allard School of Law on all law degrees.

Allard was surprised to find out that while the university included the new faculty name on JD (Juris Doctor) degrees, it was not including the new name on graduate law degrees.

The matter went to arbitration and in his ruling on the case, arbitrator Neil Wittman found that neither party had addressed the meaning of the words “degree certificates” that were included in the gift agreement.