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Note: this article was updated July 2009 As every land developer knows, the City of Vancouver has the power to impose or stipulate conditions when ... Continued
Recently, the province’s Supreme Court has twice addressed issues relating to the clean up of contaminated sites.
“At Risk” Construction Management has become a hot topic recently. I’m sure folks have been practising it in different variations for a long time, without ... Continued
Its amazing how many cases there are in the tendering field. The Elite Bailiff case is interesting to me on a few aspects, discussed below: ... Continued
Effective March 31, 2002 the procurement provisions under the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) extend to Crown corporations and MASH entities. For this article, we ... Continued
Case comment – Maple Ridge Towing v. Districts of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, BC Supreme Court, September, 2001 How did parties contract, in the ... Continued
Related to “Access to Information and Protection of Privacy” (another topic in this issue of Campus Counsel) is the question: what obligations arise where confidential ... Continued
This case will be of interest to universities, colleges, municipalities and other agencies and organizations implementing policies that must pass public scrutiny. Sound Contracting worked ... Continued
This is a righteous decision. In our Fall 1999 issue of Construction Law Bulletin we reported that in this case the BC Supreme Court held ... Continued
Sound Contracting was soundly trounced by the British Columbia Court of Appeal in a recent decision that applies the “nuanced view of cost” referred to ... Continued