January 18, 2016
New rules for strata corporations on guide and service dogs in force today
British Columbia’s Guide and Service Dog Act comes into force today, bringing with it some new rules for strata corporations. The act contains a consequential amendment to the Strata Property Act, which provides that a “bylaw that prohibits a pet or other animal or that restricts the access of a Read more…
January 14, 2016
BC Supreme Court releases judgment in long-running commercial-strata dispute
The Supreme Court of British Columbia has just released its trial judgment in The Owners, Strata Plan LMS 3259 v Sze Hang Holding Inc, 2016 BCSC 32, marking the latest chapter in a dispute that stretches back to 2001 and that has already generated two decisions from the court of appeal— Read more…
January 13, 2016
Manitoba Law Reform Commission recommends modernization of law on municipal conflicts of interest
In its just-published final report Modernizing The Municipal Council Conflict of Interest Act: Accountability, Enforcement & Oversight (PDF), the Manitoba Law Reform Commission is recommending reforms to how Manitoba deals with conflicts of interest at the level of municipal councils. The summary of the report gives this description of its Read more…
January 11, 2016
A comparison of reforms to terminating a strata in British Columbia and New South Wales
This post is a follow up on a topic noted in an earlier post, discussing reforms to New South Wales’s strata-property legislation that are expected to come into force later this year. The sweeping reforms contained in this legislation include a fundamental revision of how the Australian state approaches terminating Read more…
January 8, 2016
In Memoriam: Judith Mosoff
The British Columbia Law Institute and the Canadian Centre for Elder Law express their sympathy to the family, friends, and colleagues of Judith Mosoff, who passed away in December 2015. Prof. Mosoff was appointed by the Dean of the UBC Allard School of Law to the board of the BC Read more…