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Administrative law 2024 FC 31

Canadian Frontline Nurses v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed a judicial review of the Public Order Emergency Proclamation, finding the applicants lacked standing and declining to reach the merits.

  • Standing
  • Mootness
  • Judicial review
  • Public order emergency proclamation
  • Orders in council
  • Judicial-review
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Administrative law 2024 FC 32

Jost v. Canada (Governor in Council)

The Federal Court held that two applicants had standing, heard a moot challenge to the federal emergency measures, and declared the proclamation, regulations, and order unlawful and partly Charter-infringing.

  • Emergencies act
  • Standing
  • Mootness and discretionary hearing
  • Reasonableness review
  • Ultra vires
  • Section 2(b) freedom of expression
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Tort 2023 BCCA 104

British Columbia (Minister of Public Safety) v. Latham

The Court of Appeal allowed the Province’s appeals, holding that private nuisance did not lie for purely regulatory emergency-power decisions that directly affected access to property.

  • Private nuisance
  • Statutory authority/defence
  • State of local emergency (sole)
  • Judicial review consequences
  • Causation
  • Costs
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Administrative law 2022 FC 1232

Canadian Constitution Foundation v. Canada (Attorney General)

The Federal Court dismissed a motion to amend a judicial review application, finding the request sought a Rule 317 fishing expedition into a separate later GIC decision.

  • Amendments (rule 75)
  • Record for judicial review (rule 317)
  • Cabinet confidentiality
  • Procedural fairness
  • Reasonable apprehension of bias
  • Limits on discovery
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Construction law 2021 BCSC 219

Canada Hanjiang Construction Ltd. v. Lee's Noodle House Ltd.

The court held that COVID-19 emergency order MO86 suspended the Builders Lien Act limitation period, and MO98 did not retroactively cancel that suspension.

  • Builders lien act s.33
  • Certificate of pending litigation
  • Limitation periods
  • Ministerial orders (mo86, mo98)
  • Covid-19 emergency orders
  • Registration of land charges
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Property law 2020 BCSC 1598

Canada Hanjiang Construction Ltd. v. Lee's Noodle House Ltd.

The court held that a 20-day suspension under Ministerial Order M086 extended the Builders Lien Act deadline, so the CPL was timely and the strike application failed.

  • Builders lien
  • Certificate of pending litigation
  • Limitation periods
  • Ministerial orders
  • Covid-19 emergency orders
  • Costs
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Constitutional law [1951] SCR 81

Canadian Wheat Board v. Nolan et al.

The Supreme Court of Canada held that Order-in-Council P.C. 1292 was ultra vires because the Transitional Powers Act did not authorize expropriation of barley or fixing compensation by regulation.

  • Order-in-council validity
  • National emergency transitional powers act 1945
  • War measures act
  • Appropriation of property
  • Compensation procedure
  • Price control
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