A pro-life group has won an appeal in Alberta's highest court, against a University of Alberta security fee that the school had implemented following a controversial protest in 2015.

A campus group that staged an anti-abortion protest at the University of Alberta that sparked a noisy counter-demonstration by other students and faculty has lost a court challenge over how the school handled the event.

An anti-abortion student organization at the University of Alberta says it feels the university has tried to make it impossible for them to hold an event it was planning because officials told the group it would have to pay $17,500 in security fees.