Précis: The Ontario Court of Justice held that valid provincial law applied to unloading activities of a stevedoring company operating on federal property.
Full SummaryDesgagnés Transport Inc. v. Wärtsilä Canada Inc., 2019 SCC 58
Précis: The Supreme Court of Canada held that provincial law, and not Canadian maritime law, governed the sale of a marine engine crankshaft.
Full SummaryVictoria (City) v. Zimmerman, 2018 BCSC 321
Précis: The British Columbia Supreme Court upheld a local bylaw that prohibited long term moorage but allowed temporary moorage.
Full SummaryWest Kelowna (District) v. Newcombe, 2013 BCSC 2299, 2015 BCCA 5
Précis: The British Columbia Court of Appeal affirmed the decision of the Trial Judge (2013 BCSC 1411) that anchoring/mooring was a core element of Federal jurisdiction over navigation and shipping and a municipal by-law prohibiting mooring was constitutionally inapplicable pursuant to the doctrine of interjurisdictional immunity to the extent it prohibited temporary moorage.
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