{"id":556,"date":"2016-04-22T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=556"},"modified":"2016-04-22T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:52:01","slug":"society-director-suspension-is-not-a-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Society director suspension is not a removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.gov.bc.ca\/jdb-txt\/sc\/16\/07\/2016BCSC0718.htm\">2016 BCSC 718 George v. The B.C. Wildlife Federation<\/a><\/em> concerns the powers of a society board of directors to manage the directorship.<\/p>\n<p>A director was suspended for allegedly harassing staff. A petition was brought before the court challenging the procedural validity of the suspension. The director took the position that the suspension was in fact a removal.<\/p>\n<p>The Court said that there was no removal and that there was no irregularity. The Court did not, as such, have jurisdiction in the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The decision underscores that a society is a contractual arrangement and internal relationships will be determined on contractual principles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 BCSC 718 George v. The B.C. Wildlife Federation concerns the powers of a society board of directors to manage the directorship. A director was suspended for allegedly harassing staff. A petition was brought before the court challenging the procedural validity of the suspension. The director took the position that the suspension was in fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment-law","category-litigation","category-professional-discipline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}