{"id":877,"date":"2019-12-04T18:19:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T02:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=877"},"modified":"2019-12-04T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T02:34:20","slug":"abuse-of-process-and-misfeasance-in-public-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"Abuse of Process and Misfeasance in Public Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bccourts.ca\/jdb-txt\/sc\/19\/20\/2019BCSC2069.htm\">2019 BCSC 2069 Williamsburg Water Utility Co. Ltd. v. Comptroller of Water Rights-Water Management Branch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>An interesting discussion on collateral attack, re-litigation and abuse of public office powers. The central question in this matter concerns the Court&#8217;s ability to rehear a matter that has been determined by a statutory decision maker in the context of a civil suit for damages. The reasoning in the case is somewhat curious in that it would be difficult to find an underlying case of negligence where a statutory decision maker has already found in favor of an authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: 2019 BCSC 2069 Williamsburg Water Utility Co. Ltd. v. Comptroller of Water Rights-Water Management Branch An interesting discussion on collateral attack, re-litigation and abuse of public office powers. The central question in this matter concerns the Court&#8217;s ability to rehear a matter that has been determined by a statutory decision maker in the context [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-municipal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","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=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schenklaw.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}