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Contempt of court 2021 BCSC 2658

Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC v. Mivasair

The court found William George guilty of criminal contempt for publicly helping block access to Trans Mountain’s Burnaby Terminal in breach of an injunction.

  • Criminal contempt
  • Injunction breach
  • Notice of order
  • Mens rea recklessness
  • Public defiance
  • Defences (stop work order)
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Criminal law 2020 BCSC 2190

Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC v. Mivasair

The court found Stacy Gallagher guilty of criminal contempt for publicly breaching the Trans Mountain injunction at Burnaby Terminal on November 15, December 2, and December 18, 2019.

  • Criminal contempt
  • Public defiance
  • Notice of injunction
  • Actus reus
  • Mens rea
  • Willful blindness
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Contempt of court 2019 BCCA 267

Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC v. Mivasair

The Court of Appeal dismissed criminal contempt appeals arising from pipeline protest injunction breaches, holding it was bound by United Nurses and that the agreed facts supported recklessness as to public depreciation of the court’s authority.

  • Mens rea of criminal contempt
  • Public defiance
  • Stare decisis
  • Civil vs criminal contempt
  • Criminal-contempt
  • Civil-vs-criminal-contempt
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