Summaries Sunday: Maritime Law Book

Summaries of selected recent cases are provided each week to Slaw by Maritime Law Book. Every Sunday we present a precis of the latest summaries, a fuller version of which can be found on MLB-Slaw Selected Case Summaries at cases.slaw.ca.

This week’s summaries concern:
Purchase of land & remedies / Workers’ compensation / Habeas corpus:

Pan Canadian Mortgage Group III Inc. v. 0859811 B.C. Ltd. et al. 2014 BCCA 113
Sale of Land – Remedies of purchaser – Purchaser’s lien – General
The purchasers entered into agreements with Lalli, whom they believed was acting on behalf of the owner of real property to be developed into townhouses. Each purchaser paid the entire purchase price for a townhouse to Lalli, but acknowledged in the agreement that a strata lot could not be sold before property was properly stratified, so that the purchaser would not acquire an interest in the land until he . . .

Workers’ Compensation Board (N.W.T. and Nunavut) v. Mercer et al. 2014 NWTCA 1
Civil Rights – Discrimination – Facilities and services customarily available to public – Discrimination on basis of social condition or source of income
A seasonal worker suffered an employment-related injury. He received less workers’ compensation than would have been paid to a permanent worker who suffered the same injury. As a result, he made a complaint to the territorial human rights commission that he had suffered discrimination on the basis of his social condition, a prohibited ground within the Human . . .

Khela v. Mission Institution (Warden) et al. 2014 SCC 24
Habeas Corpus – Grounds for issue of writ – Imprisonment – Change of conditions of (incl. transfers)
The Warden of Mission Institution decided to transfer a federal inmate (Khela) from the medium security Mission Institution to the maximum security Kent Institution on an emergency and involuntary basis. Khela made an application for habeas corpus in the British Columbia Supreme Court. The British Columbia Supreme Court, in a decision reported at [2010] B.C.T.C. Uned. 721, granted the writ. The court held that . . .