Category: Municipal Law

The Britsh Columbia WCB recently had dealt with issue of prime contractor status of the City of Surrey on a road excavation project. The matter concerned an excavation collapse fatality. The case is discussed in Canadian Occupational Health and Safety…

The City of Vancouver was heavily penalzed for witholding documents from the plaintiff during the trial process in Williams v. Vancouver (City of), 2005 BCSC 1900. The matter was heard in front of a jury. The documents in question were…

Kollen v. Vancouver (City), 2006 BCCA 93, deals with the stay of a summary trial decison pending an appeal of the original decisision. The case concerns the forced removal of a large legal non-conforming roof top billboard by the City…

Ridley Bros. Development Co. Ltd. et al. v. City of Colwood, 2006 BCSC 1141 is an interesting case on cost sharing in relation to the construction of muncipal infrastructure. In this case a sewer system. Here the petitioners had paid…

Poor management is one reason that you see, at least in BC and some of the Vancouver cases, for the denial of a municipal business licence. Despite what the cases said I always found this to be an odd reason…