Canada has two official languages – English and French - arising from our unique heritage as a country. Given this status, one may have assumed both official languages were freely used in the courts across the country. Not so says the British Columbia Court of Appeal which recently ruled that documents, not in the English language, without a certified translation cannot be ...
In an earlier blog I discussed a B.C. Supreme Court decision involving problem strata owners who had, for years, defied efforts by the strata council to moderate their outrageous conduct. The case was significant because the court ordered the strata unit sold as the only reasonable means of addressing the problems created by its owners. The court held that it had ...
On July 18, 2012 the B.C. Medical Services Commission (the “Commission”) released the results of an audit of two private health care facilities in Vancouver, the Cambie Surgery Centre and the Specialist Referral Clinic, which revealed that the two facilities have been billing patients directly for surgical and other medical services that are otherwise covered under ...
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