BCSC upholds decision of the information and privacy commissioner denying assertions of privileges over certain documents

21. December 2021 0
Administrative law – Decisions reviewed – Information and Privacy Commissioner – Disclosure of records – Freedom of information and protection of privacy – Judicial review – Standard of review – Correctness – Solicitor-client privilege – Litigation privilege – definition Sechelt (District) v. British Columbia (Information and Privacy Commissioner), [2021] B.C.J. No. 2363, 2021 BCSC 2143, ...

Appeal from judicial review decision finding Workers’ Compensation Board decision regarding employer’s reporting duties unreasonable

28. October 2014 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Workers Compensation Boards – Workers compensation – Employer – definition – Employer’s duty to report accident – Third parties – Judicial review – Standard of review – Reasonableness simpliciter – Compliance with legislation British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority v. Workers’ Compensation Board of British Columbia, [2014] ...

Judicial review application to set aside decisions of university nursing program and university appeal board denying request to retake practicum program

24. December 2013 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – University Appeal Board – Nurses – Professional governance and discipline – Training requirements – Attempt – definition – Universities – Students – Evaluation – Judicial review – Applications Chen v. University of Saskatchewan, [2013] S.J. No. 655, 2013 SKQB 367, Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench, October 8, ...

A 54 year old man applied for judicial review of a decision of the Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal, which had upheld the decision of the Minister of Social Development denying him a ‘persons with disabilities’ designation. His petition was dismissed.

23. October 2012 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal – Persons with disabilities – Severe – definition – Judicial review – Compliance with legislation – Failure to provide reasons – Evidence – Standard of review – Patent unreasonableness Garbutt v. British Columbia (Minister of Social Development), [2012] B.C.J. No. 1805, 2012 ...

A party to a settlement (Mr. D’Ettorre) applied for judicial review of a decision made by a “delegate” from the Financial Services Commission of Ontario. The Delegate held that an assignment of Statutory Accident Benefits was not valid. The Respondent, Coachman Insurance Company, succeeded in having the application for review dismissed.

23. October 2012 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Financial Services Commission – Arbitration and award – Judicial review – Compliance with legislation – Statutory provisions – Interpretation – Remedies –  Damages – Assignment – Validity – Settlements – Trial – Definition D’Ettorre v. Coachman Insurance Co., [2012] O.J. No. 4443, 2012 ONSC 3613, Ontario Superior ...

A partner in a limited liability partnership is not an employee of the partnership for the purpose of claiming protection of human rights legislation from age discrimination. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal and the Supreme Court, on judicial review, decided that for the purposes of human rights legislation, a partnership may be treated as a separate legal entity from its partners and as the employer of the partner, resulting the Tribunal having jurisdiction to hear a complaint by a partner of discrimination in his employment. On appeal by the partnership, the Court of Appeal found that the principles of interpretation of the Human Rights Code, RSBC 1996, c.210, which mandated a broad, liberal approach consistent with its remedial purposes, do not extend to overriding the fundamental and well-established principle of law that a partnership, is not, in law, a separate entity but a collective of its partners. As such, it cannot in law be an employer of a partner. The Tribunal had no jurisdiction to hear the complaint and the appeal was allowed.

25. September 2012 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Human Rights Tribunal – Human rights complaints – Discrimination – Age – Statutory interpretation – Employment law – Employee – definition – Partnerships – Mandatory retirement – Judicial review – Jurisdiction – Compliance with legislation Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP v. British Columbia (Human Rights Tribunal), [2012] B.C.J. ...

The Appellants, Rogers Communications Inc. and other online music service providers, appealed the Copyright Board’s decision, which created a tariff for the online streaming of music. The Appellants argued that offering streaming music was not “communicating to the public” for the purposes of the Copyright Act. The Respondent Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada successfully contested the appeal.

28. August 2012 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Copyright Board – Intellectual property – Streaming music – Communication to the public – definition – Judicial review – Compliance with legislation – Standard of review – Correctness – Reasonableness simpliciter Rogers Communications Inc. v. Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, [2012] S.C.J. No. ...

The Registrar of Motor Vehicles’ interpretation of its enabling statute was not entitled to deference and is reviewable on a standard of correctness. Where there is an apparent discrepancy between a statutory provision and a regulation as to which vehicles qualify as “special mobile equipment”, the statutory definition must prevail. When there is an ambiguity in the interpretation of a statutory provision, there is a residual presumption in favour of taxpayers.

25. October 2011 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Registrar of Motor Vehicles – Permits and licences – Motor vehicles – Special mobile equipment – definition – Judicial review – Compliance with legislation – Statutory interpretation – Standard of review – Correctness Carter Brothers Ltd. v. New Brunswick (Registrar of Motor Vehicles), [2011] N.B.J. No. 304, ...

The public law remedy of judicial review is not available to contest the removal and expulsion of a Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Port of Dalhousie, a non-profit body incorporated under the Companies Act, R.S.N.B. 1973, c. C 13. The Port of Dalhousie is not a body that exercises statutory powers in the discharge of any regulatory or other governmental responsibilities. While it may have been incorporated to pursue some public good, it is not a creature of statute any different from any other non-profit corporation. While the functions of the corporation may serve the public interest, they are not regulatory in nature. The main function of the corporation is to conduct a business: managing the Port. The decision making power of the Port of Dalhousie is not sufficiently of a public character to be subject to the Court’s power of judicial review.

25. October 2011 0
Administrative law – Associations and clubs – Governance – Judicial review application – Availability – Public body – definition – Hearings – Remedies – Hearing de novo – Private law remedies Maltais v. Port of Dalhousie Inc., [2011] N.B.J. No. 309, 2011 NBCA 84, New Brunswick Court of Appeal, September 22, 2011, A. Deschenes, J.C.M. ...

The Applicant, Ms. Fawcett, unsuccessfully brought an application for judicial review of a decision made by the Respondent, Canadian Chiropractic Examining Board, which refused to permit her to write an examination on June 12, 2010 as she did not apply for the exam or pay the required fee by the applicable deadline

26. October 2010 0
Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Canadian Chiropractic Examining Board – Chiropractors – Training requirements – Permits and licences – Examinations – Fees – Judicial review – Public body – definition – Discretion of delegated authority – Evidence – Procedural requirements and fairness – Standard of review – Reasonableness simpliciter Fawcett v. Canadian ...