Bethany Lindsay

A fraudulent scheme that saw an unoccupied home in Richmond, B.C., sold without the owner’s consent has led to more than $300,000 in discipline penalties and costs for the real estate agents and brokers involved.

David Hilderman, who ran for the PPC in the Saanich—Gulf Islands riding in 2021, has a university degree in engineering but is not licensed as a professional engineer, according to a recent B.C. Supreme Court judgment.

Advocates are applauding the ‘exceptional’ accommodations provided to a domestic violence victim testifying in a recent B.C. family law case, saying they should be more widely available to survivors facing their abusers in court.

After two decades, Susanna Blunt’s portrait of Queen Elizabeth II that appears on all Canadian coins will slowly begin disappearing from people’s wallets, replaced by Steven Rosati’s portrayal of King Charles III.

The Vancouver outdoor company Arc’teryx has won a temporary injunction barring Adidas from using the name “Terrex” on a Kitsilano store, in what a judge has described as a David vs. Goliath battle over trademark infringement.

Two wildfires in B.C.’s southern interior caused more than $720 million in insured losses last year, making them the most costly insured extreme weather event the province has ever seen, according to a new report.

The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled against two congregations of Jehovah’s Witnesses that tried to argue their religious freedoms were infringed when the information and privacy commissioner ordered them to turn over records containing personal information about two former members.

A lawsuit filed by a suspended Vancouver lawyer against her neighbour has been dismissed by a B.C. Supreme Court associate judge, who described it as “frivolous and vexatious” and bearing many hallmarks of a pseudolegal claim.

A Vancouver lawyer who filed a frivolous lawsuit tinged with pseudolegal hallmarks has resigned her licence to practise law, according to the Law Society of B.C.

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a complaint from a college instructor who was fired over YouTube videos calling for the death penalty for women who have abortions, suggesting transgender people should be forced into asylums and referring to Allah as the Antichrist.