acquiesce to her demand to take action against Galloway. As reported in the Globe and Mail, A.B. said: A nine day hearing on the lawsuit began in April 2021. During the proceedings, one of A.B.'s friends argued that her tweets about Galloway were inconsequential and that she had already suffered career setbacks by criticizing him. Galloway described how the allegations against him had destroyed his career, specifically mentioning the fact that his publisher withdrew a three book contract in 2018, and how he had been reduced to doing manual labor jobs, including cleaning swimming pools, for a living. He also took issue with a critic's review of a 2018 art exhibit, featuring art by A.B., which described the alleged assault without naming Galloway. It was revealed that two defendants, UBC Professors Keith Maillard and Annabel Lyon, had organized the meeting which first alerted other department members to the allegations — a meeting which one attendee described as "[an effort] protect students and faculty" and another described as "a toxic, traumatic event". Maillard and Lyon, who were on A.B.'s committee, rejected claims that their handling of the allegations was related to the fact that they had approved her application to graduate without a complete thesis. On December 2, 2021, Justice Elaine Adair ruled that Galloway’s suit was not a SLAPP suit and allowed him to proceed to trial against all but two of the defendants. Of those who Adair ruled had defamed him, she found that each was motivated by malice. Regarding AB’s false statement to UBC Creative Writing Faculty about the CBC having vetted her claims and offered her a national platform to air them, Adair wrote: She further writes: In reference to defendant Chelsea Rooney, Adair ruled that: The remaining defendants argued that their statements were made without malice and with the intention of furthering discussion on the important societal subject of sexual assault. Adair did not agree. Ruling on Mandi Gray, she wrote: Ruling on Glynnis Kirchmeier: Ruling on Arielle Rombaugh: Writing about this hearing in the National Post, Adam Zivo summarized Adair’s ruling: Adair’s decision has been appealed, and a hearing is scheduled to take place in May 2023 in the BC Court of Appeals. Books Finnie Walsh Galloway's debut novel, Finnie Walsh (2000), was nominated for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. It was described as "a work about the love of hockey and the