Administrative law – Decisions reviewed – Municipal councils – Judicial review – Legislative compliance – Appeals – Standard of review – Reasonableness – Municipalities – Building permits – Bylaws – Planning and zoning G.S.R. Capital Group Inc. v. White Rock (City), [2022] B.C.J. No. 180, 2022 BCCA 46, British Columbia Court of Appeal, February 4, ...
City administrator’s decision to revoke taxi plate licences was upheld on the basis that there was no procedural unfairness, and that the decision to revoke the licences was itself fair. Administrative Law – Bias – Bylaws – Decisions reviewed – Judicial Review – Municipalities – Natural Justice – Permits and Licences – Procedural requirements and ...
A bylaw prohibiting pharmacists from using customer incentive programs was struck down on judicial review on the basis of unreasonableness. The College of Pharmacists appealed. The appeal was allowed as the court found that the bylaws conformed to the rationale of the statutory regime. Administrative law – Bylaws – College of Pharmacists – Compliance with ...
The Court of Queen’s Bench allowed an appeal of an Uber driver’s acquittal in respect of two municipal bylaw offences. The Traffic Commissioner had acquitted the driver on the basis that he had not physically accepted the cash during a sting operation, meaning a true transaction did not take place and there was insufficient evidence ...
The applicant City of Burnaby is a municipality in which the existing Trans Mountain Pipeline, travelling from Sherwood Park, Alberta, to terminals and refineries in central British Columbia, the Lower Mainland, Puget Sound, and other points, has a right of way. The respondent Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC is the proponent of the Trans Mountain Expansion ...
