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Property law 2024 BCCA 418

1004364 BC Ltd. v. Kelowna (City)

La Cour rejette l’appel et confirme que la nullité de certaines clauses positives n’invalide pas le reste du droit de passage statutaire.

  • Statutory right of way
  • Easements
  • Positive covenants
  • Interpretation of instruments
  • Severance
  • Injunctions
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Property law 2023 BCSC 1580

Kelowna (City) v. 1004364 BC Ltd.

Post-trial costs reasons in a statutory right of way dispute. The City was found substantially successful, received trial costs, and costs were allocated for three interim applications.

  • Statutory right of way
  • Interpretation of instrument
  • Positive covenants
  • Severance of covenants
  • Permanent injunction
  • Offers to settle
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Property law 2022 BCSC 1020

West Kelowna (City) v. The Owners, Strata Plan EPS2459

The court granted the City of West Kelowna an interlocutory injunction preventing a strata from blocking public access to a registered lakeside walkway.

  • Restrictive covenants
  • Statutory right of way
  • Interlocutory injunction
  • Public access
  • Enforceability of covenants
  • Interlocutory-injunction
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Corporate law 2022 BCSC 416

Pettitt v. Misty Ridge Community Water Company Ltd.

The court refused to summarily dismiss most oppression-remedy issues, but struck the plaintiffs’ beneficial-ownership claims as untimely and unsupported.

  • Oppression remedy
  • Shareholder standing
  • Timeliness/limitations
  • Articles amendment
  • Water utility regulation
  • Statutory right of way
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Property law 2021 BCSC 1444

Vida (Re)

The court dismissed a petition to cancel a conservation covenant, statutory right of way and rent charge over a Coquitlam property, finding the statutory tests were not met.

  • S.35 property law act
  • Obsolescence of covenant
  • Prematurity
  • Statutory right of way
  • Rent charge
  • Cancellation of charges
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Property law 2020 BCSC 1184

TimberWest Forest Corp. v. 0768816 B.C. Ltd.

The court held that locked gates on a statutory right of way substantially interfered with TimberWest’s access and ordered 076 to keep them open as needed.

  • Statutory right of way
  • Interpretation of easement
  • Interference with easement
  • Permanent injunction
  • Damages
  • Easements
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Property law 2019 BCSC 2051

Skene v. Ucluelet (District)

The Court cancelled a statutory right of way over the petitioners’ property, finding the instrument invalid for uncertainty and unenforceable positive obligations.

  • Statutory right of way
  • Certainty of servitudes
  • Unenforceable positive covenants
  • Pla s.35 grounds
  • Land title act requirements
  • Obsolescence of land charges
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Administrative law 2019 BCSC 255

Bonavista Energy Corporation v. Fell

The Court held the Surface Rights Board erred in finding jurisdiction over the Fells’ claim, set aside the decision, and found the Wellsite remained subject to prior rights and reservations.

  • Jurisdiction
  • Surface rights
  • Crown grant interpretation
  • Statutory right of way
  • Land title
  • Judicial-review
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Property law 2016 BCSC 2083

Arbutus Bay Estates Ltd. v. Canada (Attorney General)

The court held that a registered easement authorized access to and operation of the Horton Bay public wharf, ordered rectification for a small encroachment, and awarded nominal damages.

  • Statutory right of way
  • Interpretation of registered easements
  • Riparian rights
  • Ancillary rights (parking)
  • Rectification of registered instrument
  • Expiration and cancellation of easements
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Occupiers liability 2016 BCSC 213

Furlan v. The Owners, Strata Plan BCS3202

The court held the strata corporation and property manager liable after a cyclist was injured by an unmarked rollover curb on a shared pathway in Vancouver.

  • Duty of care
  • Breach of statutory duty
  • Causation
  • Foreseeability
  • Maintenance obligations
  • Damages assessment
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