“…the judgment of Hickinbottom J (as he then was) in a case upon which Mr McDonnell placed considerable reliance, R (Zahid) v University of Manchester and Others [2017] EWHC 188 (Admin). In that case, a student had a complaint against her university. Having exhausted the internal complaints machinery, she could have begun legal proceedings, bu…”
“…Very recently, Hickinbottom J (as he then was) considered the position of the OIA in some detail in R (Zahid) v The University of Manchester [2017] EWHC 188 (Admin), at [23] – [49] and concluded that it was ADR properly so called. As there set out (at [23]), the OIA came into being as a result of perceived deficiencies in …”